title: The impact of verbal prompts on child safety-belt use in shopping carts.
abstract: Each year thousands of children are injured by falling from shopping carts. Buckling children into the seats of shopping carts could prevent many of these injuries. A combined reversal and multiple baseline across settings design was used to evaluate the impact of verbal prompts on shopping cart safety-belt use in two stores. Safety-belt use increased following implementation of the verbal prompt. This study extends the literature on the efficacy of verbal prompting in the promotion of safety-belt use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Florida State University, One University Way, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1270, USA.
authors.forename: Mae R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Barker
authors.forename: Jon S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: Natalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003132:Commerce; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D011482:Protective Devices; D014705:Verbal Behavior