ABSTRACT
We further evaluated the Performance Diagnostic Checklist- Safety (PDC-Safety) by comparing the effectiveness of a PDC-Safety indicated intervention with a PDC-Safety non-indicated intervention for three employees at a clinic serving children with intellectual disabilities. The interventions targeted participants’ hand washing before working with clients. The results of the PDC-Safety suggested that the antecedents and information domain was most problematic. First, a non-indicated intervention, which included access to additional materials (i.e., hand sanitizer), was implemented and found to be ineffective. Next, an indicated intervention, which included prompting, was found to be effective to increase safe performance to acceptable levels for two of the three participants; one participant required feedback to substantially improve and maintain safe performance.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Ryan Walz and Ma Krishna Rosales for their assistance with data collection.
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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.