The brief experimental analysis (BEA) is an empirical method for comparing multiple academic interventions in a short amount of time and predicting intervention effects in subsequent extended evaluations. This study extended the BEA literature by evaluating its utility for identifying effective interventions for decreasing problem behavior and increasing compliance for two individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability who engaged in escape‐maintained problem behavior. Across individuals, four treatment arrangements were compared to a baseline‐control condition: noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) with food, NCR with toys, differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO) with food, and DRO with toys. Using an alternating treatment embedded within a withdrawal design, conditions from the BEA associated with the lowest rates of problem behavior and the highest rates of adaptive behavior (i.e., compliance) were further evaluated during schedule thinning. For both individuals, the two most effective interventions from the BEA maintained effects during extended application and schedule thinning. These findings extend the utility of the BEA to identify durable interventions for decreasing problem behavior and increasing adaptive behavior.

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对问题行为进行简短实验分析的临床应用：治疗效果和持久性分析

简要实验分析（BEA）是一种经验方法，用于在短时间内比较多种学术干预措施并预测后续扩展评估中的干预效果。这项研究通过评估其用于确定有效的干预措施来减少问题行为并提高对两名被诊断患有自闭症谱系障碍和智力残疾的人进行逃脱维持问题行为的个体的干预措施的实用性，扩展了BEA的文献。在个人中，将四种治疗方案与基线控制条件进行了比较：食物进行非特例强化（NCR），玩具进行NCR，食物对其他行为的差异增强（DRO），以及玩具进行DRO。通过在撤回设计中嵌入替代处理，在计划精简过程中，进一步评估了来自BEA的与最低问题行为率和最高自适应行为率（即合规性）相关的条件。对于这两个人，BEA的两种最有效的干预措施在扩展应用程序和减少计划的过程中保持了效果。这些发现扩展了BEA的效用，可用于确定减少问题行为和增加适应行为的持久干预措施。