“…Motivational interviewing (MI) has been shown to be a promising approach for promoting health behavior change in a number of contexts including substance abuse (Jenson et al, 2011), quitting smoking (Heckman, Egleston, & Hofmann, 2010;Lai, Cahill, Qin, & Tang, 2010), physical activity promotion (Bennett, Lyons, Winters-Stone, Nail, & Scherer, 2007;Carels, Darby, Cacciapaglia, Konrad Coit, & Harper, 2007;Hardcastle, Blake, & Hagger, 2012;Hardcastle, Taylor, Bailey, & Castle, 2008;O'Halloran et al, 2014), and dietary change (Armstrong et al, 2011;Befort et al, 2008). MI can be considered a complex intervention comprising multiple techniques to promote behavior-change.…”