Chaney et al 2004
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- Chaney et al 2004
- Aim
- To find out if reinforcement could be applied to a health setting
- Procedure
- Parents of children recruited via GPs
- Given questionnaire about child's existing inhaler including a consent form.
- Given the Funhaler for 2 weeks. Parents had to use it with the children
- Randomly the parents would be called and asked if they'd used it the day before
- After 2 weeks, given same questionnaire but about the Funhaler
- Funhaler
- Incentive built in to encourage children
- Spinning disk and whistle activated when child exhaled. Had to give a deep enough breath
- Delivered correct amount of medication
- Results
- 81% used Funhaler previous day compared to 59%
- 50% correct breath cycles for Funhaler compared to 80%
- 3% struggled to used Funhaler compared to 35%
- 61% parents completely happy with Funhaler compared to 10%
- Participants
- 32 children from Australia. 10 female 22 males.
- Aged 1.5-6yrs
- Avg duration of asthma 2.2yrs
- In a repeated measures field experiment
- Conclusions
- Funhaler led to increase in use and correct use
- Parents less likely to give up using the Funhaler
- Funhaler caused less problems for parents and children
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