Training Therapists in Motivational Interviewing

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Spinal Cord Injuries

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03322202

441247

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a Motivational Interviewing intervention on therapy participation as performed by physical and occupational therapists in an inpatient setting with patients with spinal cord injuries.

Full description

Physical and Occupational Therapists that work in the inpatient spinal cord injury unit will be trained in Motivational Interviewing and will use the communication style to determine whether it is an effective tool to increase participation in therapy as opposed to patients who will have Physical and Occupational Therapists that are not trained in Motivational Interviewing.

Enrollment: 110 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Therapist Inclusion Criteria:

• Inpatient therapist specializing in spinal cord injury patients for at least 3 months
• Practicing on one of the two designated inpatient units
• Willing to collect Patient Rehabilitation Participation Scale (PRPS) daily on their patients
• Willing to audio record conversations with patients;
• Willing and able to participate in 16 hours of MI training
• Willing to receive feedback on MI skills

Therapist Exclusion Criteria:

• Inpatient therapist specializing in spinal cord injury patients for less than 3 months
• Unwilling or unable to follow the study protocol

Patient Inclusion Criteria:

• Inpatient in the spinal cord injury unit
• Has a physical or occupational therapist who is a participant in the study

Patient Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwilling to allow for therapy sessions to be recorded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

Motivational Interviewing

Experimental group

Description:

Physical and Occupational Therapists will have 16 hours of training in Motivational Interviewing and use these techniques during sessions with patients.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Therapists will not participate in additional training.