50 Free Eprints of another new social validity article with this link! https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/X8DIVIYYZCMAC4SESXTQ/full?target=10.1080/07317107.2022.2068780
Surprisingly, despite its importance and attention given in discussion currently in our field, supporting data and research are very much lacking. Data are needed in paediatric feeding to help accurately disseminate this highly important, effective, acceptable, and valued treatment, increasing access to treatment for families in need to improve their quality of life, and increasing opportunities for training/education for professionals. This is the first report to our knowledge to analyse social validity data comprehensively across variables such as participant characteristics, goals, treatment processes, treatment components, and outcomes. Ratings were high across the board (4.8 & 4.9 out of 5). Check out the results/graphs/tables! Instead of just getting numeric scale ratings, we got actual parent voices.
Future research could get caregiver input to design assessments, and use methods to analyse open-ended data (as in Anderson et al., 2021), in addition to the extensions to this work in Taylor & Taylor 2022b.
Historically, the focus has been on procedures and escape extinction narrowly, and not the actual data available in the literature firsthand from real parents, or the broader definition of social validity which includes the goals, processes, and outcomes.
We tried to look at this comprehensively, but the ratings were too high no matter what, so due to ceiling effects so nothing came out. We’ll take it! Not a bad research issue to have that the results are consistently too high to analyse.