BEHAVIORAL ENGINEERING: THE USE OF RESPONSE PRIMING TO IMPROVE PRESCRIBED SELF‐MEDICATION1
作者:
N. H. Azrin,
J. Powell,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
(WILEY Available online 1969)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 1
页码: 39-42
ISSN:0021-8855
年代: 1969
DOI:10.1901/jaba.1969.2-39
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
A major problem in outpatient treatment has been the extreme irregularity with which patients use medication prescribed for them. As a new approach to resolving this problem, a portable operant apparatus was developed based on response priming and escape reinforcement. The apparatus sounded a tone at the time that a pill was to be taken. When the user turned a knob to terminate the tone, the apparatus delivered the pill into the user's hand. The apparatus was evaluated with six normal adults using a medically inert pill. A greater proportion of the pills were taken by each subject when using the special apparatus as compared with the use of a portable alarm timer or the usual wristwatch. These results demonstrate a new approach for increasing the regularity of self‐administration of medicine
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