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Increasing donations to supermarket food-bank bins using proximal prompts
Samantha J Farrimond1, Louis S Leland
1University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|July 4, 2006
Abstract:
There has been little research into interventions to increase participation in donating items to food-bank bins. In New Zealand, there has been an increased demand from food banks (Stewart, 2002). This study demonstrated that point-of-sale prompts can be an effective method of increasing donations to a supermarket food-bank bin.
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