Abstract
A total of 148 health and social care practitioners were trained in skills to support behaviour change: creating opportunities to discuss health behaviours, using open discovery questions, listening, reflecting and goal-setting. At three time points post-training, use of the skills was evaluated and compared with use of skills by untrained practitioners. Trained practitioners demonstrated significantly greater use of these client-centred skills to support behaviour change compared to their untrained peers up to 1 year post-training. Because it uses existing services to deliver support for behaviour change, this training intervention has the potential to improve public health at relatively low cost.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 138-51 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Health Psychology |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 8 Apr 2014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2016 |
Bibliographical note
© Sage 2014. The final publication is available via Sage at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105314523304Keywords
- Communication
- Health Behavior
- Health Personnel/education
- Humans
- Public Health