TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Making every contact count'
T2 - Evaluation of the impact of an intervention to train health and social care practitioners in skills to support health behaviour change
AU - Lawrence, Wendy
AU - Black, Christina
AU - Tinati, Tannaze
AU - Cradock, Sue
AU - Begum, Rufia
AU - Jarman, Megan
AU - Pease, Anna
AU - Margetts, Barrie
AU - Davies, Jenny
AU - Inskip, Hazel
AU - Cooper, Cyrus
AU - Baird, Janis
AU - Barker, Mary
PY - 2014/4/8
Y1 - 2014/4/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1177/1359105314523304
DO - 10.1177/1359105314523304
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
C2 - 24713156
SN - 1461-7277
JO - Journal of Health Psychology
JF - Journal of Health Psychology
ER -