The dissemination of motivational interviewing in Swedish county councils: Results of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A significant number of Swedish practitioners are offered workshop trainings in motivational interviewing through community-based implementation programs. The objective of this randomized controlled trial was to evaluate to what extent the practitioners acquire and retain skills from additional supervision consisting of feedback based on monitoring of practice.

Materials and methods

A total of 174 practitioners in five county councils across Sweden were randomized to one of the study's two groups: 1) Regular county council workshop training, 2) Regular county council workshop training followed by six sessions of supervision. The participant's mean age was 43.3 years, and the majority were females (88.1%).

Results

Recruiting participants proved difficult, whi

SUBMITTER: Beckman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5531530 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature