A randomized pragmatic feasibility trial to promote student perspective-taking on client physical activity level: a collaborative project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health-care practitioners have opportunities to talk with clients about unhealthy behaviors. How practitioners approach these conversations involves skill to be effective. Thus, teaching health-care students to communicate empathetically with clients should promote effective client-practitioner conversations about health behavior change. The primary objective of this pilot trial was to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of a theoretically informed intervention designed to improve perspective-taking.

Methods

For inclusion in this randomized mixed-methods parallel two-arm trial, participants needed to be a student at the investigators' Canadian university and have completed course content on behavior change communication. Using a 1:1 allocati

SUBMITTER: Hoplock LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11437983 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature