Candidate: Katherine M. Holverstatt-Cockrell

Degree of: Doctor of Philosophy

Department: Psychology

Title: Using Measures of Intervention Integrity, Intervention Acceptibility and Intervention Effectiveness to Evaluate a Toilet Training Program in a Preschool Classroom for Children with Special Needs

Committee:

Dr. Kristal Ehrhardt, Chair
Dr. Galen Alessi
Dr. John Austin
Dr. Regena Falls Nelson

Date: Monday, February 11, 2002, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, 3715 Wood Hall

Abstract:

The primary objective of this study is to use measures of intervention integrity, intervention acceptability, and intervention effectiveness identified by Witt and Elliott (1985) to evaluate the toilet training program in preschool classroom. The second objective is to assess the effects of parent participation. The third objective is to assess the effects of the toilet training intervention. Specifically, this study investigated (a) the relationship between intervention integrity, acceptability, and effectiveness of a toilet training intervention implemented in a preschool setting and at home; (b) the relationship between parental participation with the intervention and the efficacy of the program at the preschool classroom; and, (c) the effects of a toilet training program that employs high levels of client involvement, consultee training, and parent participation.Intervention integrity and intervention effectiveness were assessed by direct observation and intervention acceptability was assessed with acceptability questionnaires. A multiple baseline design across preschool classrooms is the experimental tactic for evaluating the data collected in this project.

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