title: Motivational interviewing may facilitate professional interactions with inspectees during environmental inspections and enforcement conversations.
abstract: In the present work inspectors used Motivational Interviewing (MI) to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour in inspectees. MI is a counselling method with scientific support for various health behaviour changes. Inspectors (n = 32) in four Swedish municipalities received training in MI over a yearlong period. Their MI competency as well as their experience of using MI in routine inspections was monitored over the year. The results showed that inspectors significantly increased their competence in the Empathy variable, defined as accurate listening to inspectees. Inspectors judged MI to be useful in inspections, approximately 5 on the 6-point scale. There were indications that MI may be easier or more appropriate to use in certain inspections than in others.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Forsberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wickström
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Håkan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Källmén
keywords: Behaviour change; Environmental behaviour; Environmental inspections and enforcement; Intervention; Motivational interviewing