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- Title
Evaluating parent‐implemented behavioral skills training for teaching firearm safety skills.
- Authors
Novotny, Marissa A.; Miltenberger, Raymond G.; Baruni, Rasha R.; Maxfield, Trevor C.; Larson, Vanessa; Yampolskaya, Svetlana
- Abstract
Research shows that behavioral skills training (BST) and in situ training (IST) are effective interventions for teaching safety skills to children. In addition, the efficiency of these interventions can be increased when parents, teachers, or peers are taught to implement them. The purpose of this study was to replicate Novotny et al. (2020) and evaluate a web‐based program for teaching parents to conduct BST to teach safety skills to prevent gunplay. We randomly assigned 18 children to the parent‐conducted BST group or a control group and evaluated the intervention in a posttest only control group design. Children in the control group or treatment group who did not score a three in the in situ assessment (do not touch, get away, and tell an adult) received IST from their parents and were assessed again. Results showed that safety skill scores were statistically significantly higher in the treatment group than in the control group. Furthermore, there was a statistically significant increase in safety skills scores following IST for children who received it.
- Subjects
SAFETY; ANALYSIS of variance; FIREARMS; INTERNET; BEHAVIOR therapy; SIMULATION methods in education; MEDICAL care; CHILDREN'S accident prevention; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; SOCIAL skills education; PARENTS; CHILDREN
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 3, p625
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.1942