Heart health whispering: A randomized, controlled pilot study to promote nursing student perspective-taking on carers' health risk behaviors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lifestyle counseling is described as a "major breakthrough" in the control of chronic diseases. Counseling can be challenging to nurses due their lack of motivation to counsel, hesitancy to appear non-judgmental, lack of empathy, and lack of time. Nurses voice their need for more training in counseling communication skills. Our main objective was to engage in ongoing development and testing of a promising Heart Health Whispering perspective-taking intervention on nursing students' clinical empathy, perceptual understanding, and client readiness to alter health risk behaviors.

Methods

In this randomized controlled pilot study, the full intervention (perspective-taking instructions, practice, and video-feedback) and partial intervention (video-feedback only)

SUBMITTER: Lobchuk M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5968556 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature