'Making every contact count': Evaluation of the impact of an intervention to train health and social care practitioners in skills to support health behaviour change

Wendy Lawrence; Christina Black; Tannaze Tinati; Sue Cradock; Rufia Begum; Megan Jarman; Anna Pease; Barrie Margetts; Jenny Davies; Hazel Inskip; Cyrus Cooper; Janis Baird; Mary Barker

doi:10.1177/1359105314523304

'Making every contact count': Evaluation of the impact of an intervention to train health and social care practitioners in skills to support health behaviour change

Wendy Lawrence
, Christina Black
, Tannaze Tinati
, Sue Cradock
, Rufia Begum
, Megan Jarman
, Anna Pease
, Barrie Margetts
, Jenny Davies
, Hazel Inskip
, Cyrus Cooper
, Janis Baird
, Mary Barker

MRC LEU, University of Southampton, UK [email protected].
MRC LEU, University of Southampton, UK.
NIHR Nutrition Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK. [email protected].
MRC LEU, University of Southampton, UK NIHR Nutrition Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research, UK.
School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Primary Care and Population Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Public Health Team, NHS Southampton City, Civic Centre, Southampton, UK.
MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; NIHR Nutrition Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105314523304
Publication status	Published - Feb 2016

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Communication
Health Behavior
Health Personnel/education
Humans
Public Health

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Lawrence, W., Black, C., Tinati, T., Cradock, S., Begum, R., Jarman, M., Pease, A., Margetts, B., Davies, J., Inskip, H., Cooper, C., Baird, J., & Barker, M. (2016). 'Making every contact count': Evaluation of the impact of an intervention to train health and social care practitioners in skills to support health behaviour change. Journal of Health Psychology, 21(2), 138-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105314523304

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