Adaptation of a measuring communication skills program for healthcare practitioners for Colombia

Measuring the abilities of health practitioners to motivate patients to behaviour change is important. Healthcare practitioners are rarely adequately trained on how to engage patients on it. Healthcare practitioners often aim to promote behaviour change by providing unsolicited advice, which is not conducive to promoting behaviour change, due to not considering patient motivation or perceived ability to change. Engaging patients in behaviour change is an important need in the health system due patient behaviour is a key mechanism through which healthcare is managed. This underscores the imperative need to implement interventions aimed at fostering behavioural changes that promote healthier habits. However, the first step in a training process is to measure the skills that practitioners have.
MC Cat is a tool developed by researchers at the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre (MBMC). This platform allows to measurement of a set of motivational communication skills that are important in a behaviour change process. The main objective of this project is to develop and validate a translated and culturally adapted version of the MC Cat focused on measuring healthcare professionals’ motivational communicational skills in the context of the Colombian healthcare system.

Faculty Supervisor:

Simon Bacon

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Partner:

Universidad EAFIT

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Concordia University

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