Improving evaluation of psychotropic medication for adults with developmental disabilities living in community settings

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 dis...

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Published in:Behavioral interventions 2006-04, Vol.21 (2), p.73-83
Main Authors: Blough, Darren, Pulliam, Barbara, Page, Terry J., Sweeney, Victoria, Dougherty, Rose, Grim, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
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Adults
Developmental disabilities
Effectiveness studies
Psychotropic drugs
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1072-0847
1099-078X
DOI:10.1002/bin.203