Educational methods, type of intervention and intervenor, number of modalities used, duration, and number of reinforcing sessions are related to the success of an intervention for smoking cessation.
To ensure consistency in the intervention, the staff had 12 supportive, 60-min reinforcing sessions every second month provided by a motivational interview trainer.
All correct responses were reinforced from session 7, when both levers were first available, through session 12.
The second stage is individual randomisation to physiotherapy or the control intervention of a single advice session reinforcing the advice given in ED, for patients still experiencing whiplash symptoms at three weeks.
a. Training Lay educators attended a 2 day residential training course at Education for Health (formerly the National Respiratory Training Council {NRTC}), Warwick followed by a distance learning programme and 3 reinforcing 1 day sessions with an NRTC trainer.
An important aspect of our training approach is the use of the modular nature of training that allows participants to return to their places of work after each face-to-face interactive session, thereby reinforcing theory with practice through enhancing hands-on learning.
Some of the free text comments that the students made in the year group 2008 - 2009included "Very helpful in reinforcing anatomy taught using cadavers", "Session was advantageous", "More sessions and more exposure", "Very difficult to understand/ orientate", "Line diagrams are very useful to orientate".
These techniques add fun to therapy with children, increasing the reinforcing value of the sessions.
In both cases, the fading factor causes similarities to continuously decrease through time unless they are reinforced by recent session data.
The individuals' understanding and use of the new skills were evaluated and positively reinforced at each session.
