Training practitioners to deliver opportunistic multiple behaviour change counselling in primary care: a cluster randomised trial.

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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of training primary care health professionals in behaviour change counselling on the proportion of patients self reporting change in four risk behaviours (smoking, alcohol use, exercise, and healthy eating). DESIGN: Cluster randomised trial with general practices as the unit of randomisation. SETTING: General practices in Wales. PARTICIPANTS: 53 general practitioners and practice nurses from 27 general practices (one each at all but one practice) recruited 1...

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Authors: Butler, C; Simpson, SA; Hood, K; Cohen, D; Pickles, T

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
• Volume: 346
• Issue: 7901
• Pages: f1191
• Publication date: 2013-01-01
• DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f1191
• EISSN: 1756-1833
• ISSN: 0959-8138
• Language: English
• Keywords: Life Style; Confidence Intervals; Health Behavior; Female; Physician-Patient Relations; Counseling; Adult; Middle Aged; Program Evaluation; Male; Wales; Patient Compliance; Time Factors; Odds Ratio; Cluster Analysis; General Practitioners; Humans; General Practice; Attitude to Health; Primary Health Care; Nurse Practitioners; Treatment Outcome; Risk Assessment