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Data Collection

Sampling and sample size

The desired data was collected from a sample of 25 participants who passed the inclusion criteria and were available for the four week study period. Posting flyers about the program, I received random calls, and 78 people were interested, but after the interviews, only 42 were eligible. Further elimination saw the sample reduce to 25 which was used to collect the necessary data.

Study design

The study followed a quantitative design. Data was collected through the NICHQ Vanderbilt Assessment Scale and used to ascertain if the intervention was appropriate in reducing the issue of ADHD in patients. Although the study borrowed some aspects of a randomized experiment, there was no control group to moderate the findings and data. Therefore, the ultimate approach used is quantitative research design.

Data Analysis

Demographic statistics

Based on the data collected from the Vanderbilt Assessment, twenty-five participants were recruited for this scholarly project. Nineteen participants were female, and six participants were male. All participants were Latinos between the ages of 27 and 52 years old. Fourteen participants held a Master’s Degree, 2 participants held a Bachelor’s degree, and five participants held, and Associates’ degree and four participants completed some college courses. Most participants were married, 22, and only 2 participants reported to be divorced, and 3 participants reported to be single. Family income for all participants fluctuated between $80,000 to over $100,000. Fifty percent of the participants reported family income over $150,000 per year, thirty percent of the participants reported income between $100,000-$130,000 and twenty percent of participants reported yearly family income from $95,000 to $99,999.

Table 1: Demographic statistics of the participants

Based on table 1 above, most of the participants involved in the Vanderbilt Assessment were females with only 24% being males. Furthermore, 80% of the sampled population were married and while 56% had attained a master’s education level making it convenient to carry out the assessment and obtain accurate results. Lastly, the income distribution among the participants’ families was even with most, above 50%, earning in excess of $150,000 yearly.

Pre-Intervention

Before starting the educational group sessions to raise awareness about ADHD, all the participants completed the Vanderbilt Assessment to gauge the performance of the patients. The following information was obtained from the 25 participants who started the study.

Table 2: Summary results of pre-intervention performance measures

From the table above, most of the participants reported performance to have average to problematic issues with all the performance measures. Particularly, there were a total of 50 responses on average, 55 on somewhat a problem and 40 on problematic across all the measures. Only 5 responses out of the possible 150 responses for all the measures reported above average performance. This indicates that ADHD is prevalent in almost all patients.

Post-Intervention

After 3 weeks of interventions to create awareness on brain disorder, the patient data was reported again using the same Vanderbilt Assessment. This time the data sought to illustrate any improvements as a result of the interventions undertaken. However, only 22 participants reached this level in week four. The summary data for their responses to performance measures are displayed in the table below.

Table 3: Post Intervention Performance Measures

From the data, it is evident that most patients improved from problematic to average performance. Notably, almost half of the participants, 67, reported that the patients registered average scores for the performance measures. Although there were no excellent performers, there were still 6 responses that showed above average performance after the intervention.

Generally, there was a slight improvement in performance after the intervention was undertaken on the patients. From a total of 95 responses showing below average performance across all measures, the number decreased to 59 after the intervention. Furthermore, the average performance also increased from 50 to 67 responses. Ideally, this shows that with a successful intervention, the severity of ADHD can be minimized and performance in behavior, cognitive abilities, mood and academic can be improved significantly. However, areas such as overall academic performance, reading, writing, and relationships need improvement for the impact of ADHD to be less in patients.

Paired Sample t-test

In order to show the differences in the pre and post-intervention performance for ADHD patients t-test was utilized. The following analysis was obtained based on the data. Basically the test is based on the following hypothesis;

The mean scores for Pre-intervention and Post-intervention differ significantly.

H0: