Evaluating primary care behavioral counseling interventions: an evidence-based approach.

@article{Whitlock2002EvaluatingPC,
  title={Evaluating primary care behavioral counseling interventions: an evidence-based approach.},
  author={Evelyn P. Whitlock and Carole Tracy Orleans and Nola J. Pender and Janet D. Allan},
  journal={American journal of preventive medicine},
  year={2002},
  volume={22 4},
  pages={
          267-84
        }
}
View on PubMed
webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu
1,029 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
45
Background Citations
262
Methods Citations
122
Results Citations
9

Figures and Tables from this paper

1,029 Citations

Citation Type

Citation Type

Issues of Concern Linking Behavior Change and Health Outcomes
J Behavioral counseling interventions to promote healthy behaviors can significantly reduce leading causes of disease and death. Recommendations for delivery of these interventions in primary care…
Standards of Evidence for Behavioral Counseling Recommendations.
Enhancing the Evidence for Behavioral Counseling: A Perspective From the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
Behavioral Counseling Research and Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Perspectives
TLDR
These recommendations emphasize the importance of the external validity of the research base, best summarized by the adage, If you want to get research into practice, you must get practice into research.
Behavioral Counseling Interventions Expert Forum: Overview and Primer on U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Methods.
The Gap Between Clinical Trial and Application in Health Behavior Counseling: Can Behavioral Medicine Build a Bridge?
Patients desire to have information about health-related behaviors (e.g., exercise) provided to them by their health care provider. Outcomes of clinical trials in physical activity counseling are…
Coordination of Health Behavior Counseling in Primary Care
TLDR
In-practice health risk assessment and brief counseling emerged as the best way to consistently coordinate and encourage follow-through for health behavior counseling, suggesting that this approach led to improvement in health behaviors.
Screening and Behavioral Counseling Interventions in Primary Care To Reduce Alcohol Misuse: Recommendation Statement
TLDR
The USPSTF found good evidence that screening in primary care settings can accurately identify patients whose levels or patterns of alcohol consumption do not meet criteria for alcohol dependence, but place them at risk for increased morbidity and mortality, and goodevidence that brief behavioral counseling interventions with follow-up produce small to moderate reductions in alcohol consumption.
Gaps in the Evidence for Well-Child Care: A Challenge to Our Profession
TLDR
Limited direct evidence was found to support the recommended interventions, and it is concluded that repeated intensive counseling is most likely to be effective.
Multiple behavioral risk factor interventions in primary care. Summary of research evidence.
...
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 190 REFERENCES
Counseling: implementing our knowledge in a hurried and complex world.
A meta-analysis of trials evaluating patient education and counseling for three groups of preventive health behaviors.
Office system interventions supporting primary care-based health behavior change counseling.
Theories and intervention approaches to health-behavior change in primary care.
Alcohol counseling: physicians will do it.
TLDR
Physicians and other health-care providers trained in a brief provider-delivered alcohol intervention will counsel their high-risk drinking patients when cued to do so and supported by a primary care office system.
Brief interventions for alcohol problems: a review.
TLDR
There is encouraging evidence that the course of harmful alcohol use can be effectively altered by well-designed intervention strategies which are feasible within relatively brief-contact contexts such as primary health care settings and employee assistance programs.
How does physician advice influence patient behavior? Evidence for a priming effect.
TLDR
Patients who received physician advice to quit smoking, eat less fat, or get more exercise prior to receiving intervention materials on the same topic were more likely to remember the materials, show them to others, and perceive the materials as applying to them specifically.
Physician training for patient-centered nutrition counseling in a lipid intervention trial.
TLDR
Results of this 3-hr educational program indicate that physicians in an HMO are responsive to the teaching of specialized skills deemed important for promoting health behavior change in their patients.
A controlled trial of physician counseling to promote the adoption of physical activity.
TLDR
Physician-based counseling for physical activity is efficacious in producing short-term increases in moderate physical activity among previously sedentary patients.
A clinical trial of tailored office systems for preventive service delivery. The Study to Enhance Prevention by Understanding Practice (STEP-UP).
...
...