‘It's difficult, I think it's complicated’: Health care professionals’ barriers and enablers to providing opportunistic behaviour change interventions during routine medical consultations

• Published in: British journal of health psychology Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 571 - 592
• Main Authors: Keyworth, Chris, Epton, Tracy, Goldthorpe, Joanna, Calam, Rachel, Armitage, Christopher J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2019; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Academic disciplines; Barriers; Behavior change; Behavior modification; behaviour change; behaviour change wheel; Brief interventions; Clinical outcomes; Competence; COM‐B; Cost analysis; Covert; Feedback; Health behavior; Health care expenditures; health care professionals; Health education; Health planning; Health problems; Health services; Intervention; Medicine; Mental health services; Original; Patient communication; Patients; Professional identity; Professionals; Public health; qualitative; Roles; Theoretical Domains Framework; behaviour change; behaviour change wheel; COM-B; qualitative; Theoretical Domains Framework; health care professionals

Objectives Internationally, public health strategies encourage health care professionals to deliver opportunistic behaviour change interventions. The present study: (1) examines the barriers and enablers to delivering interventions during routine consultations, and (2) provides recommendations for t...