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  • General Practice
  • Behavior Change Interventions
  • Patient-Centered Care

Background:

  • General Practitioners (GPs) play a crucial role in supporting patient behavior modification.
  • Approaches to behavior change counseling during consultations vary significantly among GPs.
  • Understanding the dynamics of GP-patient interactions is key to optimizing behavior change support for chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify mechanisms that enable GPs to conduct successful behavior change consultations for patients with T2DM.
  • To explore the multifaceted role of GPs in facilitating patient behavior change.
  • To examine the factors within GP consultations that either support or hinder behavior change, and how contextual elements influence these interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Employed semi-structured interviews with 13 academic clinicians, 7 GPs, and 16 patients diagnosed with T2DM across Australia.
  • Utilized a realist evaluation framework for thematic analysis of the collected interview data.
  • Focused on understanding diverse perspectives on GP roles and consultation dynamics in behavior change.

Main Results:

  • GP roles were perceived variably, from information providers to facilitators of shared goals through a relational approach.
  • A collaborative, continuous, and patient-driven GP-patient relationship appears crucial for successful behavior change.
  • Patient and GP characteristics were identified as moderators influencing the effectiveness and experience of behavior change consultations.

Conclusions:

  • Recognizing patient-specific factors in consultations enables a relational approach, facilitating the identification of behavior change priorities often missed in transactional models.
  • GP communication and engagement skills are intrinsically linked to adopting a person-centered approach for effective behavior change support.
  • A relational, person-centered approach by GPs enhances the likelihood of successful behavior modification in patients with T2DM.