Treatment Acceptability Assessment - Experiment 1
Objective: To develop an assessment device to evaluate treatment acceptability for deviant child behavior and examine whether treatments were rated as differentially acceptable across reinforcement, time out, drug therapy, and electric shock conditions
This is a Treatment Acceptability Assessment - Experiment 1 protocol using human as the model organism. The procedure involves 3 procedural steps, 2 materials. Extracted from a 1980 paper published in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
Model and subjects
human • unknown • undergraduate
Study window
Estimated timing pending
Core workflow
Present clinical cases and treatments to participants • Present four treatment conditions • Assess treatment acceptability ratings
Primary readouts
- Treatment acceptability ratings across four treatment conditions
- Differential acceptability of reinforcement of incompatible behavior versus time out from reinforcement versus drug therapy versus electric shock
- Overall acceptability rankings of treatments
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Present clinical cases and treatments to participants
Clinical cases describing children with problem behaviors were presented to undergraduate students along with four different treatment options
Note: Cases and treatments were presented in a Replicated Latin Square Design to control for order effects
View evidence from paper
“clinical cases were described to undergraduate students along with four different treatments in a Replicated Latin Square Design”
Present four treatment conditions
Four different treatments were described as applied to children with problem behaviors: reinforcement of incompatible behavior, time out from reinforcement, drug therapy, and electric shock
Note: Treatments were presented in counterbalanced order using Replicated Latin Square Design
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“The treatments included reinforcement of incomparible behavior, time out from reinforcement, drug therapy, and electric shock and the treatments were described as they were appliedto children with problem behaviors”
Assess treatment acceptability ratings
Undergraduate students rated the acceptability of each treatment using an assessment device developed in this experiment
Note: This step developed and validated the assessment device for evaluating treatment acceptability
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“Experiment 1 developed an assessment device to evaluate treatment acceptability and examined whether treatments were rated as differentially acceptable”