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Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 8, No. 6,
839-857 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/104973239800800609
© 1998 SAGE Publications
Outlasting Disruption: The Process of Reinvestment in Families with ADHD Children
Judy Kendall
School of Nursingat Oregon Health Sciences University
The goal of the research described in this article was to generate a grounded theory of how parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coped with this chronic behavioral disorder. Interview data from 15 families with ADHD children (N = 59) were analyzed using the grounded theory method. Data analysis revealed that parents out-lasted the disruption of ADHD through three subprocesses of "reinvesting": making sense, recasting biography, and relinquishing the "good ending." Findings suggest that there is a developmental trajectory of how parents adjust to the disorder over time and that there is a need for increased social and mental health services for all members of the family over the course of the disorder.

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