Effect of solution focused approach to the level of self-efficacy and self esteem of adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

This research is carried out in order to examine the Effect of Solution Focused Approach to the Level of Self-Efficacy and Self Respect of Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. A composite pattern consisting of quantitative and qualitative research methods is used in this research. Quantitative aspect is performed as single blinded, randomised controlled, experimental study; pretest, posttest and follow up scheme is used. Phenomenologic pattern is used in qualitative aspect. Adolescents aged 12-18 being followed up and treated with the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the child and adolescent psychiatry policlinic of an university hospital , composed the sampling of the research. This research was carried out with 42 adolescents in total , 22 in application group and 20 adolescent in control group. While the available follow up and treatment was applied to the control group, interviews based on solution focused approach were carried out in application group additionally. Quantitative data was collected using Personal Information Form, General Self-Efficacy Scale and Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale, while Qualitative data was collected via documents written by adolescents after interviews. Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance, Independent Samples t-test and Dependent Samples t-test were used in the analysis of quantitative data. Descriptive analysis was used in the evaluation of qualitative data. It was found that self-efficacy and self esteem score averages of adolescents are different in time and between the groups and interaction between time and group is statistically significant (p<0.05). While there is no statistically significant difference between the pretest scores with regard to self-efficacy and self esteem scores of the application and control group adolescents (p >0.05), there is an advanced significant diffecerence between the posttest and follow up scores on behalf of application group (p<0.05). Effect size of the research was calculated as 1.02 and power was calculated as 0.92. In the Qualitative findings of the research, adolescents expressed positively affecting in the self-efficacy and self esteem. It was determined that interviews based on solution focused approach increased the self-efficacy and self-esteem level of adolescents being followed up with the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.