title: Evaluating strategies to improve careprovider performance on health and developmental tasks in an infant care facility.
abstract: Responding to administrative staff and parental concerns, using modified reversal and withdrawal designs, two experiments evaluated a staff-managed feedback system to improve the hygiene and developmental skills of children in an infant/toddler center. Experiment 1 examined feedback designed to increase staff performance in checking and changing diapers, and recording those changes. A chart plus supervisory feedback produced increases in and maintenance of staff performance. Experiment 2 compared an existing staff management system with a "playchart" plus feedback in increasing careprovider-infant stimulation. The data (with follow-up on a new staff) supported the use of the new feedback system. Questionnaire data further supported the utility of the playchart system.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002656:Child Day Care Centers / Q000592:standards*; D002657:Child Development; D003142:Communication; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D008875:Middle Aged; D010988:Play and Playthings; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012931:Social Environment