Self-Efficacy Enhancing Interviewing Techniques Study (SEE-IT)

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Asthma; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Diabetes; Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Behavioral: Control intervention; Behavioral: Self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00643435

200715598-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patient self-efficacy, or confidence in one's ability to take the necessary steps to achieve a goal, has been shown to influence a number of important health behaviors and outcomes. However, current ways of increasing patient self-efficacy are time and labor intensive and occur away from doctor visits, where most health care is delivered. We developed, and are testing in a study the effectiveness of a new way of teaching doctors how to talk to patients during office visits in a way that will boost their patients' self-efficacy for changing important health behaviors.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Family medicine or internal medicine residents in training at the University of California Davis Medical Center

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

These residents receive training provided by standardized patient instructors, in use of self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques to support patient health behavior change,

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-efficacy enhancing interviewing techniques training

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

These residents receive training provided by a standardized patient instructor, regarding the common co-occurrence of chronic medical and mental health problems, without any interviewing technique discussion or training.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control intervention