Motivating health: strategies for the nurse practitioner.
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.
Duran
Lynne S
LS
artesia@attbi.com
D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009722:Nurse Practitioners