Do volunteers reduce the costs of parent training programs?

ADHD has considerable negative consequences for both affected individuals and their families. However, parent training programs have been shown to milden such negative effects. Running parent training programs is associated with substantial costs. One way to reduce such costs is to use volunteers as trainers. This cost-effectiveness analysis evaluates the volunteer-delivered parent training program Caring in Chaos. The analysis shows that Caring in Chaos is as effective as similar programs while the recurrent costs associated with the program are substantially lower than that of (other) similar programs. Although direct comparison is difficult due to different outcome measures being used in the comparable studies , we tentatively conclude that Caring in Chaos constitute a commendable alternative to validated parent training programs such as Triple P and The Incredible Years although more research and more comparable data are required to draw more definitive conclusions.