title: Motivational interviewing for medication adherence.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To familiarize pharmacists with motivational interviewing as a way to engage patients in discussions about medication adherence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Motivational interviewing is a collaborative, patient-centered communications skill set that can increase behavior change by stimulating a patient's own internal motivation for change. Pharmacists using motivational interviewing can explore factors associated with medication nonadherence, assess patient ambivalence and/or resistance, and educate a patient to promote medication-adherent behaviors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pharmacists can use motivational interviewing to effectively engage patients in a conversation that addresses medication adherence.
authors.forename: Marissa C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Salvo
authors.forename: Michelle L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Cannon-Breland
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D055118:Medication Adherence; D062405:Motivational Interviewing; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D010595:Pharmacists / Q000523:psychology*; D024382:Professional Role; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations