Chaney

Question 1

Backround

Answer 1

Shane, he wants to see the children could be encouraged to stick more to medical routine. If reinforcement was used he wanted to see if putting in sensitive toys into an inhaler would increase how often children used it.

Question 2

What was the experimental design?

Answer 2

Repeated measures design

Question 3

What was the experimental method

Answer 3

Field

Question 4

What was the sample?

Answer 4

32 Australian children with it mean age of 3.2 years

Question 5

Method

Answer 5

Parents completed a questionnaire on their child’s attitude usage with her existing inhaler
They use the fun here for two weeks, and they were sent a second questionnaire to assess the attitude with the fun Haler
Parents also were issued with a phone interview asking if they had successfully medicated their child on the previous day 

Question 6

Results

Answer 6

60% more children took the recommended dose when using the fun Gila compared to their standard medication
22 out of 30 children were reported as always successful using the fun haler compared to 3, using the standard device
In the phone interview, 38% more parents had medicated the child the previous day when using fun haler

Question 7

Conclusion

Answer 7

That positive reinforcement can encourage desired behaviour, such as adherence to medical routines