Motivational interviewing in health settings: a review

Motivating Smokers in the Hospital Pulmonary Function Laboratory to Quit Smoking by Use of the Lung Age Concept

“…The current study provides support for using brief motivational interviewing (Britt, Hudson, & Blampied, 2004;Lai et al, 2010;Miller & Rollnick, 1991) in the setting of the PFT laboratory, which provides a unique opportunity to focus smoking cessation strategies on current smokers with potential lung problems. Coupling physiological feedback with motivational interviewing enhances the technique because a key component of this approach is to provide personalized feedback of risk to motivate subjects to change behavior (Borrelli et al, 2002).…”

Training Primary Care Physicians to Employ Self-Efficacy-Enhancing Interviewing Techniques: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Standardized Patient Intervention

“…[15][16][17] There is an urgent need for effective, focused, time-efficient interviewing approaches that busy practitioners can routinely employ to motivate healthy behaviors. 18 One promising approach is training primary care providers to enhance patient self-efficacy, or confidence in their ability to complete the tasks leading to a behavioral goal. 19 Theory and research indicate that self-efficacy influences myriad behaviors and can be strengthened by interventions, improving health outcomes.…”

Consultations About Changing Behaviour

“…7 8 This rather obvious conclusion probably accounts for the enthusiasm with which motivational interviewing has been adapted from psychotherapy into healthcare settings. [9][10][11][12] Since patients often feel ambivalent about change, they are sensitive to well intentioned efforts to persuade them one way or the other. Resistance and denial are common reactions, but these can be overcome, and outcomes improved, if the practitioner elicits the case for change from the patient rather than imposes it.…”

“…We already know that adaptations of motivational interviewing are generally more effective in changing single behaviours than no or minimal interventions, and they are usually as effective as more intensive alternatives. [10][11][12] It is now worth testing the hypotheses that brief interventions informed by the guiding style result in greater change than directive advice across multiple behaviours.…”