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[Learning motivational interviewing to better support patient medication adherence]
Teddy Novais1,2, Cristiana Fortini3, Alexandra L Dima4
1Pharmacien, Service pharmaceutique, Hôpital des Charpennes, Hospices Civils de Lyon, 69100 Villeurbanne, France.
Motivational interviewing (MI) training improves health professional support for patient therapeutic adherence. This interprofessional training aims to enhance skills and knowledge, encouraging wider adoption.
Area of Science:
- Health Behavior Change
- Patient Adherence Research
- Interprofessional Education
Context:
- Motivational interviewing (MI) shows efficacy in health behavior change and patient therapeutic adherence.
- Current training for health professionals in therapeutic adherence support is inadequate and unevenly distributed.
- A gap exists in equipping healthcare providers with essential skills for supporting patient adherence.
Purpose:
- To design and evaluate an interprofessional continuing training program focused on therapeutic adherence and MI.
- To equip health professionals with fundamental knowledge and practical MI skills for patient adherence support.
- To assess the initial outcomes of the training to inform future dissemination strategies.
Summary:
- An interprofessional continuing training program was developed by experts to address deficiencies in therapeutic adherence support training.
- The training integrates core concepts of therapeutic adherence with practical motivational interviewing techniques.
- Initial results from the training session provide positive feedback and suggest effectiveness.
Impact:
- Encourage health professionals to actively participate in further training for improved patient care.
- Inform healthcare decision-makers about the benefits of promoting this interprofessional training.
- Facilitate wider dissemination of effective training methods for enhancing patient therapeutic adherence.
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