Bonus 21 - Promoting Pandemic Safety Measures (or, Wash Your Damn Hands)
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
LIVE from the TxABA conference—which, because of the pandemic, we recorded in the comfort of our homes—it's a fun-filled presentation from ABA Inside Track! Due to popular demand, we've switched up our original talk to discuss what research can tell us about promoting safety measures in our daily lives. Is there a way to improve hand washing in the general population? What does economic research tell us about social distancing? And how is the Green Movement like a global health initiative? Big thanks to our friends at TxABA for their kind invitation. We hope to see you at the Alamo next year!
Articles discussed this episode:
Fenichel, E.P. (2013). Economic considerations for social distancing and behavioral based policies during an epidemic. Journal of Health Economics, 32, 440-451. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.01.002
Fournier, A.K. & Berry, T.D., (2012). Effects of response cost and socially-assisted interventions on hand-hygiene behavior of university students. Behavior and Social Issues, 21, 152-164. doi: 10.5210/bsi.v.21i0.3979
Bowman, L.G., Hardesty, S.L., Sigurdsson, S.O., McIvor, M., Orchowitz, P.M., Wagner, L.L., & Hagopian, L.P. (2019). Utilizing group-based contingencies to increase hand washing in a large human service settings. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 12, 600-611. doi: 10.1007/s40617-018-00328-z
Bordlein, C. (2020). Promoting hand sanitizer use in a university cafeteria. Behavior and Social Issues, Online Access. doi: 10.1007/s42822-020-00026-y
Chance, P. & Heward, W.L., (2010). Climate change: Meeting the challenge. The Behavior Analyst, 33, 197-206. doi: 10.1007/bf03392219
Pritchard, J. (2010). Virtual rewards for driving green. The Behavior Analyst, 33, 185-187. doi: 10.1007/bf03392216
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast. That's like reading in your car, but safer. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, bringing you a special |
| 0:21.5 | podcast episode. This is one of our live episodes, live in the sense that it was originally going |
| 0:27.0 | to be live. It was a recording that we were going to do for the Tex-A-Conference in San Antonio. |
| 0:32.5 | Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we just sort of recorded it at home like a normal episode. |
| 0:37.0 | But if you were able to go to |
| 0:39.3 | the online Tex-A conference, then you will get to see our smiling faces while we do our talk. |
| 0:44.6 | But if you didn't get a chance to go, we wanted to release the audio. And the Tex-Aba folks were |
| 0:48.5 | gracious enough to let us release the audio for this episode out to you. So hooray, you get to hear our talk. Originally, we were going to |
| 0:55.7 | speak on a different topic, but due to global events, we were asked if we could do something |
| 1:00.2 | a little more topical. So this episode is on how can we promote social distancing, handwashing, |
| 1:08.2 | how can we promote systems that will help in crisis times like |
| 1:12.4 | these related to a pandemic? So we looked at some articles related to social distancing and |
| 1:17.4 | handwashing, and then a couple related to the Green Movement to kind of come up with some final ideas. |
| 1:21.3 | But anyway, you'll hear all that in the final talk. So we hope you enjoy our live quote-unquote Tex-ABA presentation. |
| 1:31.2 | Hey, everybody. We are ABA inside track. Very nice to see you all. I guess you're seeing us. |
| 1:38.5 | Unfortunately, we can't see you. So we are very sad. I'm sure as you are that the Tex-ba Convention has had to go fully online because we were really hoping to actually get to come out to Texas to do our little talk here on promoting pandemic safety measures or as I wanted to call it, wash your damn hands. So we are going to make the best we can. We're not in sunny Texas. We're in, you know, my only |
| 2:02.4 | sunny Massachusetts right now. So we're going to get started with the presentation. So in case |
| 2:08.6 | you don't know who we are, we're the ABA inside track team. We've got a podcast that comes out |
| 2:13.6 | every week and talks about a topic in behavior analysis. We're very fortunate for |
| 2:17.8 | Texaba to invite us to come out to speak with you. We changed our topic a little bit because |
| 2:23.5 | it seemed a little more relevant to the current goings on. So let's introduce ourselves really |
| 2:29.1 | quickly. So again, my name is Robert Perry Cruz. I'm one of the hosts of the show. Seated with me, even though we're |
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