title: Shaping exhale durations for breath CO detection for men with mild mental retardation.
abstract: Roll, Higgins, and Badger (1996) used a carbon monoxide (CO) detector to determine whether participants smoked in a smoking-cessation study. We sought to replicate their work with adults with mild mental retardation. However, verbal instructions were inadequate to establish stable exhalations of sufficient durations for reliable and accurate CO evaluation. This report describes a shaping procedure that enabled 3 of 4 participants to achieve 20-s exhalation durations.
authors.affiliation: Parsons State Hospital, and Training Center and University of Kansas, 67357, USA. jazr@srskansas.org
authors.forename: Jerry
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rea
authors.forename: Dean
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D008297:Male; D012119:Respiration; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D002248:Carbon Monoxide