Application of the motivacional interview in patients with metabolic syndrome for a change in lifestyle

• Autor(a) principal: Laste, Danielle da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Susin, Nathália, Oliveira, Margareth da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.unilasalle.edu.br/index.php/saude_desenvolvimento/article/view/1029
• topic: motivational interviewing; group intervention; metabolic syndrome; Psicologia da Saúde - Prevenção e Tratamento; entrevista motivacional; intervenção grupal; síndrome metabólica

Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic approach that helps in changing behavior. It is a technique used to help the patient to recognize their problems and resolve their ambivalence directing them to behavior change. For this, the patient must adhere to the treatment and this task is not always easy. Thus, to motivate patients to change behavior becomes a challenge in clinical practice. Faced with this, the objective of this study is to analyze whether a therapist who performed service group seeking change in lifestyle in patients with metabolic syndrome was according to the motivational techniques of MI. The participants were twelve volunteers. The results indicate that the therapist was motivational in most part of interventions. Through this study the importance of the professional was verified, who uses MI to be in constant training due to the difficulty of motivating patients seeking to change their lifestyles.