The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Parenting on Mother's Parenting Stress in Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Background and Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigating of effectiveness of mindfulness-based parenting on mother's parenting stress in children with oppositional defiant disorder in primary school students. Materials and Methods: This experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest design with control group. In this research, the statistical population of the present study was all mothers with children with oppositional defiant disorder in Tehran city during the academic year of 2022-2023. First, 30 people were selected by randomly selected into two experimental and control groups were replaced (15 experimental people and 15 control people). In this study, for people experimental group was implemented in parenting based on mindfulness, but the control group received no training and remained in the waiting list. The instruments used in this study include oppositional defiant disorder rating scale (ODDRS) of Hommersen and et al (2006) and parenting stress index–short form (PSI-SF) of Abidin and et al (2006). Data analysis was performed using SPSS-24 software in two sections: descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential (analysis of covariance). Results: Results indicated that mindfulness-based parenting significantly improvement on parenting stress in mothers and oppositional defiant disorder (P<0.05). Conclusion: It can be concluded that that parenting based on mindfulness can be used as an effective intervention in order to improvement the parenting stress in mothers and oppositional defiant disorder in primary school students.