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Improving evaluation of psychotropic medication for adults with developmental disabilities living in community settings
Author(s) -
Blough Darren,
Pulliam Barbara,
Page Terry J.,
Sweeney Victoria,
Dougherty Rose,
Grim Michael
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
behavioral interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1099-078X
pISSN - 1072-0847
DOI - 10.1002/bin.203
Subject(s) - data collection , psychological intervention , psychology , baseline (sea) , psychotropic medication , medical prescription , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , nursing , mental health , statistics , oceanography , mathematics , geology
We evaluated the effectiveness of a series of staff management and training interventions to increase the use of objective data collection in the evaluation of psychotropic medications. Participants were 110 direct care staff, and 19 supervisors. Individuals served were adults with developmental disabilities who were residing in community group homes and apartments. Baseline data were collected on (1) staff data collection, and (2) graphing data for behavior problems directly related to the prescription of psychotropic medications. Following two ineffective antecedent interventions, didactic staff training was instituted in a multiple baseline across data collection and graphing. When staff training was followed by direct feedback to first line supervisory staff, both data collection and graphing increased. A subsequent maintenance condition, in which feedback was thinned, was effective in maintaining increased data collection and graphing. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.