Improving Treatment Integrity in a Human Service Setting Using Lottery-Based Incentives

Miller, Michael V.; Carlson, Joshua P.; Sigurðsson, Sigurður

doi:10.1080/01608061.2013.873381

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“…As seen in Table , children made up the greatest number of secondary participants (76%) with adults (18+) as the least frequently included in studies (4%). With respect to diagnoses, two studies (DiGennaro‐Reed, Codding, Catania, & Maguire, ; Miller, Carlson, & Sigurdsson, ) did not provide any information on the diagnoses of secondary participants. For the remaining studies, the majority of participants were reported to have a single diagnosis (71%) rather than multiple diagnoses (29%).…”

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“…The target behaviour in all studies was increasing implementation accuracy of interventions. There was an even balance between behaviour reduction and skills teaching, with 47% of the interventions being implemented to reduce client problem behaviours using function‐based behaviour support plans (Codding, Feinberg, Dunn, & Pace, ; Codding, Livanis, Pace, & Vaca, ; Courtemanche et al, ; DiGennaro et al, ; DiGennaro, Martens, & McIntyre, ; DiGennaro‐Reed et al, ; Flynn & Lo, ; Pelletier, McNamara, Braga‐Kenyon, & Ahearn, ) and the Good Behaviour Game (Maggin, Fallon, Hagermoser Sanetti, & Ruberto, ), while 53% of the interventions were implemented to increase positive behaviours or teach skills with discrete trial training (Belfiore, Fritts, & Herman, ; McKenny & Bristol, ; Miller et al, ; Pollard, Higbee, Akers, & Brodhead, ), pivotal response training (Coolican, Smith, & Bryson, ), system of least prompts (Vince Garland et al, ), a token economy (Plavnick, Ferreri, & Maupin, ) and Project ImPACT (Ingersoll & Wainer, ) which is a social communication intervention for children which uses modelling to increase spontaneous language.…”

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“…The Reichow et al () quality assessment was carried out on all 19 studies. Two (11%) of the studies were found to be strong (Flynn & Lo, ; Vince Garland et al, ), five (26%) were adequate (DiGennaro et al, ; DiGennaro‐Reed et al, ; Miller et al, ; Pelletier et al, ; Pollard et al, ), seven (37%) were found to be borderline adequate (Belfiore et al, ; Coolican et al, ; Courtemanche et al, ; Ingersoll & Wainer, ; Maggin et al, ; Mouzakitis, Codding, & Tryon, ; Weinkauf et al., ), while five (26%) were found to be weak (Codding et al, , ; DiGennaro et al, ; McKenny & Bristol, ; Plavnick et al, ).…”

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Improving procedural fidelity of behavioural interventions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A systematic review

Brady

Padden

McGill

2019

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Background Despite its importance within behavioural intervention, it remains unclear how best to achieve high procedural fidelity. This paper reviewed studies on improving procedural fidelity of behavioural interventions for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Method A systematic literature search was conducted, which identified 20 studies meeting inclusion criteria. Data were extracted on study design, participant characteristics, intervention, target behaviours, effect sizes, maintenance, generalization and social validity. A quality rating was also applied. Results A total of 100 participants took part in the included studies. Most participants were teachers working with children in school settings. There was a significant positive correlation between level of procedural fidelity and client outcomes. Feedback was the most commonly employed intervention to improve procedural fidelity. Conclusions More research should be conducted in environments with high levels of variability such as community homes to determine how to reach and maintain high levels of procedural fidelity.

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Improving procedural fidelity of behavioural interventions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A systematic review

Brady

Padden

McGill

2019

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“…Incentives are rewards individuals earn upon reaching a performance criterion and include money, time off from work, and other tangible or intangible items (e.g., Henley, DiGennaro Reed, Kaplan, & Reed, 2016;Luiselli et al, 2009). Both laboratory (e.g., Slowiak, Dickinson, & Huitema, 2011) and applied (e.g., Miller, Carlson, & Sigurdsson, 2014) studies have reliably shown improvements in performance when participants earn incentives than when they receive hourly pay. In some cases, performance improved between 15% and 300% and net profits totaled between $56,000 and $400,000 a year (Bucklin & Dickinson, 2001).…”

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A crowdsourced nickel‐and‐dime approach to analog OBM research: A behavioral economic framework for understanding workforce attrition

Henley

Reed

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J Exper Analysis Behavior

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Incentives are a popular method to achieve desired employee performance; however, research on optimal incentive magnitude is lacking. Behavioral economic demand curves model persistence of responding in the face of increasing cost and may be suitable to examine the reinforcing value of incentives on work performance. The present use-inspired basic study integrated an experiential human operant task within a crowdsourcing platform to evaluate the applicability of behavioral economics for quantifying changes in workforce attrition. Participants included 88 Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers who earned either a $0.05 or $0.10 incentive for completing a progressively increasing response requirement. Analyses revealed statistically significant differences in breakpoint between the two groups. Additionally, a novel translation of the Kaplan-Meier survival-curve analyses for use within a demand curve framework allowed for examination of elasticity of workforce attrition. Results indicate greater inelastic attrition in the $0.05 group. We discuss the benefits of a behavioral economic approach to modeling employee behavior, how the metrics obtained from the elasticity of workforce attrition analyses (e.g., P max ) may be used to set goals for employee behavior while balancing organizational costs, and how economy type may have influenced observed outcomes.

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“…In fact, Sturmey (2010) described OBM and ABA in developmental disabilities as "old friends," or as Ludwig (2015) notes, OBM is the enabler of ABA. OBM has implemented successfully in many types of health and human service settings, including hospital emergency rooms (Kelley & Gravina, 2018), outpatient medical clinics (Slowiak, 2014), physical therapy clinics (Gravina, VanWagner, & Austin, 2008), brain injury treatment centers (Guercio & Dixon, 2011), schools (Gavoni and Rodriguez, 2016;Phillips, 1998), special education (Maher, 1981), residential treatment centers (Gil and Carter, 2016;Parsons, Cash & Reed, 1989;Sasaki and Noro, 2017), psychiatric group homes (Huberman & O'Brien, 1999) and therapeutic and educational organizations that serve individuals with autism (Cook and Dixon, 2005;Miller, Carlson, Sigurdsson, 2014). In fact, the first issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management (JOBM), published in 1977, included studies conducted in human service settings that aimed to reduce absenteeism, implement token economies, and assess the impact of feedback on mental health technician performance.…”

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Editorial: An Introduction to the Special Section on Organizational Behavior Management in Health & Human Services

Rodriguez

McGee

2019

Perspect Behav Sci

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In 2017, the Association for Behavior Analysis International conference held a special one-day pre-conference on Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) in Health and Human Services (HHS). This pre-conference featured experts presenting on topics that highlight the breadth and range of OBM, particularly as it is applied within HHS. Dr. Aubrey Daniels kicked off the day's events with an introduction to OBM told through the lens of his 40 years of experience and expertise as a leading OBM consultant and author. While some of the talks presented behavioral systems analysis (BSA) and largescale change, others targeted performance management (PM) and day-today supervision and management requirements, demonstrating that OBM is useful for both strategic and tactical organizational performance improvement. Presenting on BSA and large-scale change, Dr. Heather McGee kicked things off with her talk on how HHS organizations can use BSA to implement large-scale change initiatives. Brett DiNovi presented on the specific leadership accomplishments and behaviors required to successfully and sustainably grow organizations serving individuals with ASD. Dr. Mark Dixon described system-wide interventions that OBMers and HHS organizational leaders could use to promote both sound financial and clinical practices. Drilling down into the PM side of OBM, Dr. Donald Hantula described how OBM can and should be incorporated into supervision practices to ethically improve and support employee performance, while Dr. Florence DiGennaro Reed presented a three-term model for ongoing staff training and performance management. Finally, Dr. Nicholas Weatherly presented an OBM approach to building a clinical safety culture to improve employee safety performance.

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Improving Treatment Integrity in a Human Service Setting Using Lottery-Based Incentives

Cited by 33 publications

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Improving procedural fidelity of behavioural interventions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A systematic review

Improving procedural fidelity of behavioural interventions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A systematic review

A crowdsourced nickel‐and‐dime approach to analog OBM research: A behavioral economic framework for understanding workforce attrition

Editorial: An Introduction to the Special Section on Organizational Behavior Management in Health & Human Services

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