Emma J Walker, Dorothea C Lerman, Jennifer Nguyen, Gabby Feliciano, Gregory Young
{"title":"Caregiver-implemented intervention to increase use of positive airway pressure for adults with Down syndrome and sleep apnea.","authors":"Emma J Walker, Dorothea C Lerman, Jennifer Nguyen, Gabby Feliciano, Gregory Young","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.2926","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many individuals with Down syndrome are diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a medical condition that substantially affects health and quality of life. The most common treatment for OSA is positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy. Few studies have examined interventions to improve PAP therapy adherence for adults with developmental disabilities or have recruited the assistance of caregivers to improve adherence with this therapy in the home. This study evaluated the efficacy of a caregiver-implemented behavioral intervention to increase PAP use for four adults with Down syndrome and OSA. The experimenters trained caregivers via telehealth to implement the intervention in their homes. The intervention consisted of graduated exposure, noncontingent reinforcement, and differential positive and negative reinforcement without escape extinction. The intervention increased the duration of PAP use for all four participants. These results provide preliminary support for the efficacy of this intervention and service-delivery model.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142739680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kissel J Goldman, Catherine Martinez, Garret O Hack, Rachael Hernandez, Brianna Laureano, Tracy Argueta, Reilly Sams, Iser G DeLeon
{"title":"Correspondence between preference for and efficacy of behavioral interventions: A systematic review.","authors":"Kissel J Goldman, Catherine Martinez, Garret O Hack, Rachael Hernandez, Brianna Laureano, Tracy Argueta, Reilly Sams, Iser G DeLeon","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.2924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding of the correspondence between intervention preference and efficacy is limited. We systematically reviewed 112 articles (457 cases) evaluating efficacy of and preference for behavioral interventions. We analyzed the percentage of cases for whom interventions were preferred and efficacious across broad (e.g., behavior reduction, performance, skill acquisition) and specific (e.g., noncontingent reinforcement, video modeling) intervention types. Authors reported one preferred intervention for most cases. Regarding efficacy, authors reported about half of cases as having one efficacious intervention and the other half having multiple equally efficacious interventions. The same intervention was preferred and efficacious for 74% of cases for whom authors reported one preferred and one efficacious intervention. Several specific interventions were generally preferred and efficacious across cases (e.g., digital stimuli, computer-based instruction, accumulated reinforcement, contingent reinforcement). We discuss clinical recommendations, the importance of assessing preference, and the need for research in developing protocols for assessing intervention preference.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142681954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bethany R Raiff, Caitlyn R Upton, Mikhail N Koffarnus
{"title":"Evaluating the social acceptability of the Re-Connect concept: A smartphone-based, nonfinancial, contingency management intervention.","authors":"Bethany R Raiff, Caitlyn R Upton, Mikhail N Koffarnus","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2923","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaba.2923","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contingency management is a well-validated behavior change intervention; however, the financial incentives can prevent it from being widely adopted. Most Americans have a smartphone with applications (apps) that they find enjoyable and engage with for a considerable amount of time. A potential avenue for contingency management dissemination is a mobile smartphone application that leverages the existing reward value of smartphone apps as a tool for behavior change. The present study examined the acceptability of the Re-Connect concept, which proposes to block nonessential but highly preferred apps and unlock them contingent on meeting the user's health goals. Out of the sample surveyed (N = 146), 63.02% reported that they would be likely to use Re-Connect and 67.81% would recommend it to someone. Acceptability of Re-Connect increased with greater user control. These results suggest that access to preferred smartphone apps could be a socially acceptable incentive in a contingency management intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142667927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rosemarie M Davidson, Haily K Traxler, Anthony DeFulio, A David Redish, Jenna A Royle, Hannah P Gass
{"title":"Contingency management for monosubstance use disorders: Systematic review and assessment of predicted versus obtained effects.","authors":"Rosemarie M Davidson, Haily K Traxler, Anthony DeFulio, A David Redish, Jenna A Royle, Hannah P Gass","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.2922","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contingency management (CM) is notably successful as a substance use disorder treatment and is most effective when targeting monosubstance use. Evidence suggests the effects of CM exceed predictions based on the value of the incentives delivered for monosubstance abstinence. In this systematic review, we examine common variations of CM interventions applied to a single substance to determine what factors may contribute to the larger effect. Our results show that CM produced moderate to large effect sizes when single drugs were targeted, with stable effects over time. We also found that interventions targeting cocaine abstinence overwhelmingly outperformed their predicted effect, whereas interventions for smoking cessation did not. Thus, incentives alone may not account for the success of CM, at least when applied to stimulant use disorder. We propose other potential sources of the effect including social reinforcement and the specific parameters of the reinforcement schedule.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142638932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ji Young Kim, Cody Morris, Megan E Ellsworth, Xiaoyuan Liu, Nicole F Seacord
{"title":"Choice versus no choice: Practical considerations for increasing choices.","authors":"Ji Young Kim, Cody Morris, Megan E Ellsworth, Xiaoyuan Liu, Nicole F Seacord","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.2920","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Choice involves engaging in a selection response when multiple options are concurrently available. Choices can be incorporated into many components of behavior-analytic treatment such as providing clients with a choice between multiple items, activities, or tasks. We reviewed the main characteristics of 38 behavior-analytic articles that compared choice and no-choice conditions. We coded the experimental arrangements of choice and no-choice conditions and analyzed potential factors affecting preferences for choice and no choice. The findings suggest that the sizing of alternatives from which to choose, the timing of choice opportunities, and the timing of the delivery of the chosen option varied across the studies. Furthermore, preferences for choice shifted with differential reinforcement history and response effort manipulations of choice or no choice. The findings suggest that individual variables should be considered when providing choices, but more research is needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142620792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allyson R Salzer, Claudia L Dozier, Florence D DiGennaro Reed, Derek D Reed
{"title":"Functional analysis and treatment of problem behavior by domesticated canines.","authors":"Allyson R Salzer, Claudia L Dozier, Florence D DiGennaro Reed, Derek D Reed","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.2921","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Functional analyses are used to assess maintaining variables of behavior. Despite the large amount of research on functional analyses with humans, there are limited examples with nonhumans and even fewer studies incorporating modifications to standard methods of assessment with nonhumans. One modification that has yet to be evaluated with nonhuman animals is the trial-based functional analysis in which control and test conditions are embedded in naturalistic environments. This study compared a standard functional analysis with a trial-based functional analysis across different topographies of problem behavior with dogs. The results of the functional analyses corresponded for every dog. Individualized treatments were designed to reduce problem behavior. Implications of the trial-based functional analysis include feasibility for privately owned dogs and dogs under the care of shelters. The trial-based functional analysis offers a modification to established functional analyses that may allow increased access to the assessment of problem behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142603325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marissa E Kamlowsky, Claudia L Dozier, Stacha C Leslie, Ky C Kanaman, Sara C Diaz de Villegas
{"title":"Effects of social interaction on leisure item preference and reinforcer efficacy for children with autism.","authors":"Marissa E Kamlowsky, Claudia L Dozier, Stacha C Leslie, Ky C Kanaman, Sara C Diaz de Villegas","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.2919","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We replicated and extended Kanaman et al. (2022) by comparing outcomes of solitary (leisure items only), social (leisure items with social interaction), and combined (leisure items alone and leisure items with social interaction) stimulus preference assessments to determine the extent to which the inclusion of social interaction influenced the outcomes of preference assessments for five children with autism. We then conducted reinforcer assessments to determine the reinforcing efficacy of high- and low-preferred leisure items when presented with and without social interaction. The results showed that both high- and low-preferred items functioned as reinforcers to varying degrees for all participants and the inclusion of social interaction increased the reinforcing efficacy of some items for all participants. Additionally, the results showed that combined preference assessments predicted reinforcer assessment outcomes for two of five participants but produced false-negative outcomes for three participants. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142576226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lindsey A Ives, Mathew Serel, A J Diaz, Linda LeBlanc, Jesse Dallery
{"title":"Social validity of digital social incentives in the treatment of substance use disorders.","authors":"Lindsey A Ives, Mathew Serel, A J Diaz, Linda LeBlanc, Jesse Dallery","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.2916","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Substance use disorders (SUDs) affect millions and have substantial negative consequences for individuals and society. Social incentives that leverage social networks for reinforcement or feedback have been used to improve health behaviors such as physical activity. This study investigated the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of a novel digital social incentive system embedded into a web- and smartphone-based platform for SUD recovery. The system leveraged a preexisting care team to deliver social incentives following notifications on recovery-related goal completion and abstinence to members undergoing SUD treatment. In total, 243 notifications were sent to care-team members, resulting in 117 social incentives, nearly all of which (99.15%) were coded as positive. Treatment members and care-team members provided favorable endorsements on acceptability and usability measures. Some areas of improvement were identified, such as increasing personalization and transparency. This digital social incentive system was feasible, acceptable, and usable as an adjunct treatment component for SUD recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142365265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hunter King, John Michael Falligant, Kenneth W Jacobs
{"title":"Recent research on response disequilibrium theory: A concise review.","authors":"Hunter King, John Michael Falligant, Kenneth W Jacobs","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.2917","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A resurgence in research on response disequilibrium theory has prompted a concise review of the literature from the past 5 years. Response disequilibrium, also known as response deprivation, attributes reinforcement and punishment effects to constraints on free-operant baseline levels of behavior. By describing clinically relevant behaviors in terms of instrumental and contingent activities, researchers and practitioners can predict intervention outcomes with a disequilibrium model. We summarize the empirical outcomes of disequilibrium-informed interventions across six articles and discuss areas of future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142365264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rana R. Yassa, Daniel R. Mitteer, Brian D. Greer, Shannon M. Angley, Liam H. McCabe, Omar M. Elwasli
{"title":"Teaching trainees to implement functional communication training with multiple schedules: An evaluation of training effects and durability","authors":"Rana R. Yassa, Daniel R. Mitteer, Brian D. Greer, Shannon M. Angley, Liam H. McCabe, Omar M. Elwasli","doi":"10.1002/jaba.2915","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jaba.2915","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We evaluated the effects of behavioral skills training on improving participant implementation of functional communication training with multiple schedules when working with a confederate. Behavioral skills training produced mastery-level responding for all six participants who required training, providing the first empirically supported training for this functional communication training approach. Next, we assessed durability during training challenges with (a) procedural changes to the original protocol, (b) a novel confederate with different discriminative stimuli and reinforcers, and (c) relapsed confederate destructive behavior. Training effects degraded at least once for all participants and in 62% of training challenges, although continuing to expose the participant to the challenging situations or providing postsession booster training resolved the degradation in most cases. We discuss these findings in relation to their clinical implications and directions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":14983,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied behavior analysis","volume":"57 4","pages":"999-1015"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jaba.2915","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142347138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}