Training Medical Students to Teach Safe Infant Sleep Environments Using Pyramidal Behavioral Skills Training

Medical personnel play a critical role in caregiver safe infant sleep education. However, training outcomes in the safe infant sleep training literature have been mixed. Promising approaches that warrant further investigation are the use of behavioral skills training and pyramidal training. The curr...

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Published inJournal of applied behavior analysis Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1239 - 1257
Main Authors Mery, Jacqueline N, Vladescu, Jason C, Day-Watkins, Jessica, Sidener, Tina M, Reeve, Kenneth F, Schnell, Lauren K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Wiley 01.10.2022
Subjects
Behavior
Child Safety
Infants
Medical Education
Medical Students
Skills
Sleep
Teaching Skills
Training
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Summary:Medical personnel play a critical role in caregiver safe infant sleep education. However, training outcomes in the safe infant sleep training literature have been mixed. Promising approaches that warrant further investigation are the use of behavioral skills training and pyramidal training. The current study consisted of two experiments. Experiment 1 extended Carrow et al. (2020) and Vladescu et al. (2020) by teaching medical students safe infant sleep practices using behavioral skills training. Discriminated responding was examined across trained and untrained environmental arrangements using a multiple-baseline design. All participants arranged safe sleep environments following behavioral skills training. In Experiment 2, we used pyramidal behavioral skills training to train medical students to teach others safe sleep practices. Results indicated high procedural integrity scores following training and generalization of skills.
ISSN:0021-8855
DOI:10.1002/jaba.942