Motivational interviewing
Abstract
Key tale-home messages
- Interventions that make use of motivational interviewing can be effective in changing risk behaviours for people living with HIV; the longer the motivational interviewing intervention, the more it may help intervention participants to maintain healthier practices over time.
- For people living with HIV, motivational interviewing can have a positive effect on medication adherence, sexual risk behaviours, drug use, and numerous outcomes at the same time.
- Motivational interviewing has been implemented across diverse population that differ in age, gender, race and socio-economic status.
- Some motivational interviewing interventions showed sustained effects in health promoting behaviour over a long period of time, while others did.
- Motivational interviewing interventions can be implemented by a variety of trained staff including therapists, clinicians, doctoral students, and Masters level students in social work, counselling, and health behaviour and health education.
Authors
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network: Rapid Response Service
Year
2014
Topics
- Population(s)
- General HIV+ population
- Engagement and Care Cascade
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Sexual risk behaviour
- Substance Use
- Nonmedicinal drugs
- Health Systems
- Delivery arrangements
