title: [The use of motivational interviewing (MI) in patients with chronic renal failure].
abstract: Patients suffering from chronic kidney disease must submit to numerous medical procedures and burdensome changes in lifestyle that make it difficult to adapt to the disease. Therefore, an important issue is to stimulate the patients motivation to comply with medical recommendations. This article describes a therapy tool for developing patient's motivation to change, called therapy or motivational interview (MI), the type of approach that is increasingly being used inhealth care, as an aid to chronically ill patients. Characteristics of this approach generally relies on the assumption that the Motivation for a change should come from a patient, not the provider, and a patient should articulate arnd resolve ambivalence provider persuassion is not effective and enhance resistance from a change. Persuasion by a person healing can only strengthen and enhance the patient's resistance to unwanted habits.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zawadzka
authors.forename: Justyna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kleja
mesh_terms: D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D062405:Motivational Interviewing; D010349:Patient Compliance; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior