Spirometry Test

The gold standard in lung testing In the same way that blood pressure measurements provide a simple yet effective screening method for cardiovascular disease, spirometry tests can help to unmask t...

Vitamin E Toxicity

Research has not found any adverse effects from consuming vitamin E in food. However, high doses of alpha-tocopherol supplements can cause hemorrhage and interrupt blood coagulation in animals, and...

Pharma, adherence and motivational interviewing

Précis:  Andrew Tolve explores how the technique of motivational interviewing can improve adherence rates Every day, patients aroun...

The Motivation To Change

Précis:  Dr Anna Baker, Health Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioral Therapist shares how Motivational Interviewing can be used to help elicit behavi...

Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Urged Into Mental Health Treatment By Telephone Motivational Interviewing

A brief therapeutic intervention called motivational interviewing, administered over the telephone, was significantly more effective than a simple "check-in" call in getting Iraq and Afghanistan war v...

Mobile phone services help smokers quit

Support for quitting smoking via text and video messages can help smokers kick the habit according to a new Cochrane systematic review. The authors of the review found that people were more likely to...

Offer Smokers, Ex-Smokers CT Scans, Group Says (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Older smokers and former long-time smokers should be offered annual low-dose CT screening for lung cancer, in conjunction with counseling, according to new guidelines from the Ameri...

Telephone therapy technique brings more Iraq and Afghanistan veterans into mental health treatment

(University of California - San Francisco) A brief therapeutic intervention called motivational interviewing, administered over the telephone, was significantly more effective than a simple "check-in"...

Smokers who value the future are more likely to quit

Addiction researchers have known for many years that smokers are less likely than non-smokers to look to the future in planning their lives. New research has now shown that among smokers, those who ha...

Smokers who value the future more likely to quit

Addiction researchers have known for many years that smokers are less likely than non-smokers to look to the future in planning their lives. New research has now shown that among smokers, those who ha...

Motivational interviewing may help smokers quit.

Use of motivational interviewing in smoking cessation at nurse-led chronic obstructive pulmonary disease clinics.

efraimsson e.ö., fossum b., ehrenberg a., larsson k. & klang b. (2011) Use of motivational interviewing in smoking cessation at nurse-led chronic obstructive pulmonary disease clinics. Journal of Adv...

Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation in college students: A group randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the efficacy of four individually-delivered Motivational Interviewing counseling sessions for smoking cessation versus a matched intensity comparison condition. METHOD: From 2006...

Counselor motivational interviewing skills and young adult change talk articulation during brief motivational interventions.

The process of eliciting client language toward change (change talk [CT]) is implicated as a causal mechanism in motivational interviewing (MI) and brief motivational interventions (BMI). We investiga...

Smoking cessation interventions with female smokers living with HIV/AIDS: A randomized pilot study of motivational interviewing.

Abstract Smoking among people living with HIV, particularly women living with HIV, is associated with higher morbidity and mortality rates when compared to nonsmoking individuals with HIV. Despite pat...