The Effect of Impulse Control Training on Impulsiveness and Reduce the Symptoms of Students with Oppositional Deficit Disorder

Introduction: Multidimensional and complex nature of children`s behavioral problems requires
assessment and usage of modern treatments. The present study aimed to investigate the efficacy of
Impulse Control Training on Impulsiveness and reduce the symptoms of Students with Oppositional
Deficit disorder.
Method: This was an experimental research, and a pre-test, post-test, follow-up and control group
design was applied. The statistical Universe of the study included elementary school boys in Delfan
city in the academic year 1390-91 (A.H.) with oppositional deficit symptoms. The sample consisted
of the study included 40 male students from among the male students in Delfan city identified by the
scales of Defiant Disorder Rating Scale (ODDRS) Hommersen, Murray, Ohan & Johnson parent &
teacher form and Structured clinical interview and chosen selected cluster through simple random
sampling. Then They were assigned to two groups of control and experimental (20 students in each
group). In order to measure Structured, clinical interview, scales of Defiant Disorder Rating Scale
(ODDRS) Hommersen and Etal and Impulsiveness Barrette Scale, Both the pret-est, post-test, and
follow-up was two months old. The implementation process Experimental group received Impulse
Control Training for 2 months (8 sessions of 1 hour) while the control group received no training at
all. For statistical data analysis, variance analysis with repeated measures is used.
Results: The results of multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) showed that impulse control
training of Impulsiveness and reducing symptoms of students with Oppositional Defiant disorder was
effective. Results indicated that there is a meaningful difference between the rate of symptoms of
impulsiveness and oppositional defiant disorder in both control and experimental group in post-test
and follow-up stages.
Conclusion: Results of this research showed that Impulse Control Training is on reducing symptoms
of oppositional defiant disorder and impulsive behavior in students and can be used as an effective
intervention to eliminate or decrease oppositional defiant behaviors.