Key Takeaways

An intervention for parents of children with both asthma and ADHD reduced unscheduled healthcare visits compared with usual care.

Asthma control improved significantly, as did parent-rated ADHD symptoms.

The study was limited by its focus on families in Hong Kong, with unknown generalizability to U.S. care settings.

A parenting intervention for families of children with comorbid asthma and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) reduced healthcare needs for these children, a study from China showed.

The acceptance and commitment therapy-based parenting program with asthma education, dubbed ACT-PAM, reduced unscheduled healthcare visits by a relative 67% compared with usual care -- a mean of 0.8 fewer visits over 1 year (adjusted IRR 0.33, 95% CI 0.19-0.55).

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