title: Motivating health: strategies for the nurse practitioner.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide the nurse practitioner (NP) with a practical prescription for acquiring expertise in health behavior change using integrated principles from the transtheoretical model of change and motivational interviewing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Extensive literature review of current theory and research on health behavior change.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Expertise in motivating health behavior change is essential to effective health promotion and to the NP role.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Lifestyle choices are principal contributors to the leading causes of death and most chronic diseases in the United States. Traditional health behavior interventions are often ineffective in motivating and sustaining lifestyle change.
authors.affiliation: artesia@attbi.com
authors.forename: Lynne S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Duran
mesh_terms: D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009722:Nurse Practitioners