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Less is more when it comes to patient behaviour change

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Less is more when it comes to patient behaviour change

Barbara Docherty

Barbara Docherty

Friday 23 March 2018, 07:56 AM
Diabetes heart healthy food
Knowing the right questions to ask is crucial to long-term behaviour change, says Barbara Docherty
It concerns me there is a perception from the study that the more time you spend with patients the more likely the chance of behavioural change succes
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Dowell, A. Longitudinal Study of Interactions Between Health Professionals and People With Newly Diagnosed Diabetes Ann Fam Med 2018; 16 (1) 37-44 January/February
from annfammed.org
Docherty, B. Developing Brief Opportunistic Interactions: practitioners facilitate patients to identify and change health risk behaviours at an early preventive stage. Primary Health Care Research & Development 2015 © Cambridge University Press 2015
from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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