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PARTICIPATIVE EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN: AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO INCREASE SAFETY BELT USE
Author(s) -
Lehman Galen R.,
Geller E. Scott
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1990.23-219
Subject(s) - seat belt , intervention (counseling) , psychology , baseline (sea) , occupational safety and health , multiple baseline design , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , engineering , oceanography , pathology , automotive engineering , geology
Vehicle license plate numbers and the shoulder belt use of front‐seat occupants were recorded unobtrusively when parents delivered and picked up their children at a Montessori school during 5‐day baseline, intervention, and follow‐up phases. Practicing and presenting a 15‐min safety belt skit increased the safety belt use of those 6 kindergarten children who were not consistent belt users 82% above their preintervention baseline belt use mean of 47%. The belt use of these children's parents (who watched the skit) increased to 56% above their baseline mean of 36%. Also, mean safety belt use of 11 primary school children who watched the skit increased to 70% above their baseline of 28%. Mean safety belt use of the older children's parents (who didn't watch the skit) remained at approximately 31% for each phase, regardless of whether children were vehicle occupants. The follow‐up observations, taken 3 months after the intervention, revealed 60% belt use for the kindergartners, 48% for the primary school children, and 71% for the kindergartners' parents when the children were vehicle occupants but only 30% when the parents were driving alone.