TABLE 3

Questions to support patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder regarding agreements and task completions

Physician/patient queryAgreement with home/office/family/friends/self
What did you say you would do in the past week that you did do? (label frequency of occurrence)Agreements made and kept; monitor frequency
Whom did you say that to? (eg, spouse, family member, colleague)Agreements made and kept
What is your experience of actually doing what you said you would do? (especially the effect on relationships, eg, spouse, family member, colleague)Agreements made and kept
What did you say you would do in the past week that you did not do? (label frequency of occurrence)Broken agreement; monitor frequency
Whom did you say that to?Broken agreements with whom—spouse, family member, colleague
What is your experience of actually not doing what you said you would do? (especially the effect on relationships, eg, spouse, family member, colleague)Empowering/disempowering
How might you clean up the things you said you would do that you didn’t do?
  • Complete the thing you said you would do

  • Change the thing you said you would do (eg, make a new agreement)

  • Cancel the thing you said you would do