Caroline E Temcheff, Michèle Déry, Renée A St-Pierre, Myriam Laventure, Jean-Pascal Lemelin
Precocious Initiation into Smoking, Alcohol Use, and Gambling among Children with Conduct Problems
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie
several methods assessing baseline performance chained tasks outlined literature including fixedopportunity probe fop multipleopportunity probe mop concerns raised regarding methods might change baseline performance task affecting interpretation experimental control purpose current study conduct withinsubject comparison fop mop procedures children autism performing daily living selfcare skills results indicated participants mop resulted elevated performance baseline compared fop participants mop resulted acquisition prior direct training possibility fop might result suppressed baseline performance recommended cases clinicians researchers use mop assessing baseline performance chained tasks order obtain accurate data