This document contains summaries of several self-monitoring charts created by Elizabeth Lefebre to track personal health, emotional regulation, and self-management skills. The charts track behaviors such as eating habits, water consumption, exercise routines, weight loss, smoking cessation, and nail biting. Data was recorded on charts and graphs with the goal of increasing awareness and modifying behaviors.

1. Charting to Improve Personal Health, Emotion
and Self Management Skills
Elizabeth Lefebre, M.A., BCBA
Organization for Research and Learning

2. •Urgesto eat and eating
•Urgesto eat and caloriesconsumed
•Water Drinking
•Weight Loss
•Exercise
•Smoking
•Nail Biting
Personal Health and Self Management

3. Think “I want to eat”/ Ask “am I hungry”
Purpose: Noticed that eating wasnot alwayscorrelated with hunger, and
wanted to decreasethefrequency of eating throughout theday.
Dependent Variable: eating only when hungry, and stopping when full
Independent Variable: Counting, review datadisplayed on Chart
•= had urgeto eat, asked “am I hungry?”, and ateif theanswer wasyes.
X= had urgeto eat, asked “am I hungry?”, and ateif theanswer wasno
or
didn’t ask “am I hungry” beforeeating.
O= stopped eating when full

4. 10/04/0911-Oct 18-Oct25-Oct11/01/098-Nov 15-Nov22-Nov11/29/096-Dec 13-Dec 20-Dec12/27/093-Jan 10-Jan 17-Jan01/24/1031-Jan 7-Feb 14-Feb02/21/10
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eating when full"
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CALENDAR WEEKSSUCCESSIVE
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Performer: Liz, Grade/Age:
Acceleration Movement (circles): Eats when hun
Deceleration Movement (X's): Eats when not hun
Ceiling: Stops eating when full
Supervisor: L. Lefebre, Manager: , Adviser:
Organization: Private, Agency:
Counter: L. Lefebre, Timer: , Charter:
Daily
Count per
Minute
Celeration Line Labels: cel value;
total bounce; absolute mean ratio

5. Urgesto Eat and CaloriesConsumed
Purpose: To determineif higher caloric intakecorrelateswith morefrequent
urgesto eat.
Dependent Variables: Urgesto eat, and Caloriesconsumed
Independent Variables: Counting, review datadisplayed on chart
o=caloriesconsumed
•=urgesto eat

6. 09/06/0930-Aug23-Aug16-Aug08/09/092-Aug26-Jul19-Jul07/12/095-Jul28-Jun21-Jun06/14/097-Jun31-May24-May05/17/0910-May3-May26-Apr04/19/09
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Supervisor: FS, Manager: , Adviser:
Organization: Private, Agency:
Counter: FS, Timer: , Charter:
Daily
Count per
Minute
Celeration Line Labels: cel value;
total bounce; absolute mean ratio
Acceleration mvmt 1: urges to eat
Acceleration mvmt 2: calories consumed

7. Water Drinking
Purpose: Monitoring and increasing water consumption.
Dependent Variable: Water consumed. Ideally sipswould havebeen counted, but
oz of water waseasier to measure.
Independent Variable: Datadisplay on that SCC posted on refrigerator
•= oz of water consumed

8. 02/08/0915-Feb22-Feb1-Mar 03/08/0915-Mar22-Mar29-Mar04/05/0912-Apr19-Apr 26-Apr05/03/0910-May17-May24-May05/31/097-Jun 14-Jun 21-Jun06/28/09
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COUNTIN
#REF!
Supervisor: L. Lefebre, Manager: , Adviser:
Organization: Private, Agency:
Counter: , Timer: , Charter:
Daily
Count per
Minute
Celeration Line Labels: cel value;
total bounce; absolute mean ratio
Accelleration Movement: oz of water consumed

9. CumulativePoundsLost
Purpose: Motivation????
Dependent Variable: lbslost
Independent Variable: Display of dataon SCC and equal interval graphs
posted on my refrigerator.
Cumulativecount of lbslost acrossmonths!

10. 01-Jan-17 01-Jan-1801-Jan-1601-Jan-1501-Jan-1401-Jan-1301-Jan-1201-Jan-1101-Jan-1001-Jan-0901-Jan-08
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SUCCESSIVE CALENDAR MONTHS
FREQUENCY COUNT
CALENDAR YEARSSUCCESSIVE
Performer: L, Age/Grade:
Acceleration Movement (circles): cumulative poun
Deceleration Movement (X's
Supervisor: L, Manager: L, Adviser: L
Organization: Private, Agency:
Counter: , Timer: , Charter:
Monthly
Count Per
Month
COUNTING
Celeration Line Legend: 1) Celeration Value; 2) Total Bounce;
3) Absolute Mean Ratio

11. Cumulative Pounds Lost
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12. Workout Time
Purpose: To meet weekly goalsfor timespent exercising.
Dependent Variable: exercise- becausethetypeof exercisevaried each day,
specific measuresof behavior weredifficult to record. Timespent engaging in
activitieswasmeasured.
Independent Variable: Goal setting
-=amount of timespent exercising. Each week, timeisshown cumulatively working
toward goalsset for each week.

13. 12/20/0913-Dec6-Dec29-Nov11/22/0915-Nov8-Nov1-Nov10/25/0918-Oct11-Oct4-Oct09/27/0920-Sep13-Sep6-Sep08/30/0923-Aug16-Aug9-Aug08/02/09
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Goal=90 minutes cardioGoal=110 minutes cardioGoal=120 minutes cardio
Goal=120 miutes with 4 types of work outs
Goal= 120 minutes cardio
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#REF!
Supervisor: , Manager: , Adviser:
Organization: Private, Agency:
Counter: , Timer: , Charter:
Daily
Count per
Minute
Celeration Line Labels: cel value;
total bounce; absolute mean ratio
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14. Smoking Cessation
Purpose: To examine theeffectsof public posting of dataand self-monitoring
on smoking.
Dependent Variable: Puffson cigarette
Independent Variables: public posting of dataand interval monitoring
Phases:
1. Baseline
2. Public posting of datain school hallway
3. 6 hour interval monitoring and public posting- every 6 hourscounted number
of cigarettessmoked
4. 5 hour interval monitoring and public posting- every 5 hourscounted number
of cigarettessmoked
5. Baseline
6. Public posting of datain school hallway
7. 5 hour interval monitoring and public posting- every 5 hourscounted number
of cigarettessmoked.

15. 25-Jul-1020-Jun-1016-May-1011-Apr-107-Mar-1031-Jan-1027-Dec-0922-Nov-0918-Oct-0913-Sep-099-Aug-095-Jul-0931-May-0926-Apr-0922-Mar-0915-Feb-0911-Jan-097-Dec-082-Nov-0828-Sep-0824-Aug-08
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SUCCESSIVE CALENDAR WEEKS
FREQUENCY COUNT
CALENDAR MONTHSSUCCESSIVE
COUNTIN% OF
Performer: K, Age/Grade:
Acceleration Movement (circle
Deceleration Movement (X's): Puffs on Ciga
Supervisor: , Manager: , Adviser:
Organization: , Agency:
Counter: , Timer: , Charter:
Weekly
Count
Per Week

16. Nail Biting
Purpose: To grow finger nails.
Dependent Variable: biting nails
Independent Variable: Display of dataon Chart
•= hasurgeto bitenail, but stopsbeforefinger nail reachesmouth
X= hasurgeto bitenail, and bitesnail or placesfinger in mouth to bitenail

17. 08/02/099-Aug 16-Aug23-Aug08/30/096-Sep 13-Sep20-Sep09/27/094-Oct 11-Oct 18-Oct10/25/091-Nov 8-Nov 15-Nov11/22/0929-Nov6-Dec 13-Dec12/20/09
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Stop counting
Start CountingCount "stops before biting"
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SUCCESSIVE CALENDAR DAYS
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CALENDAR WEEKSSUCCESSIVE
COUNTIN
#REF!
Supervisor: L. Lefebre, Manager: , Adviser:
Organization: Private, Agency:
Counter: , Timer: , Charter:
Daily
Count per
Minute
Celeration Line Labels: cel value;
total bounce; absolute mean ratio
Acceleration movement: have urge to bite nail and stop
Deceleration movement: have urge to bite nail and bite

18. Thanks!
A special thank you to Kyo, Fawna, and Ann for their contributions!