"Sometimes It Felt Great, and Sometimes It Just Went Pear-Shaped": Experiences and Perceptions of School Nurses' Motivational Interviewing Competence: A Convergent Mixed-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT: In this convergent mixed-methods study, the aim was to explore how objective and subjective quality ratings of school nurses' motivational interviewing (MI) correlate whilst also considering the perceptions of delivering and participating in the same MI sessions. Quantitative and qualitative data were derived from seven intervention schools participating in the Healthy School Start Plus parenting support intervention. School nurses were trained in MI and conducted an MI session with parents of 6-7-year-old children to discuss children's physical health and development. Quantitative data comprised objective ratings of school nurses' MI competence using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity 4.2 [MITI-4] protocol, as well as parents' and school nurses' subjective ratings of the MI

SUBMITTER: Moberg M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9149896 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature