- Title
- Improving the odds of compliance: using a brief telephone call to decrease pre-treatment attrition in cardiac rehabilitation
- Creator
- Cooley, Dean; Kubitz, Karia; Pedersen, Scott; Williams, Andrew
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/155041
- Identifier
- vital:11206
- Identifier
- http://www.hrpub.org/download/201308/ujph.2013.010202.pdf
- Identifier
- ISSN:2331-8880
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to test the effect of a brief telephone intervention based on the principles of motivational interviewing to reduce pre-treatment attrition in an Australian cardiac rehabilitation centre. The study was an intact comparison randomly trial. Twenty-eight adult patients diagnosed with symptoms associated with cardio-vascular disease, who were noncompliant to an initial appointment, were randomized to receive either a standard cue call or a motivational interview-based recruitment call. Compliance was measured as attendance at a booked session at the cardiac rehabilitation center. Results showed that patients who received a motivational based telephone call had 6 times the odds as those who received a standard cue telephone call for attending a booked appointment. Reducing pre-treatment attrition from cardio-vascular rehabilitation centers can be accomplished with a brief telephone intervention, which incorporates the spirit of motivational interviewing.
- Relation
- Universal Journal of Public Health Vol. 1, no. 2 (2013), p. 20-25
- Rights
- Copyright 2013 Horizon Research Publishing All articles published by HRPUB will be distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. So anyone is allowed to copy, distribute, and transmit the article on condition that the original article and source is correctly cited
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Motivational interviewing; Pre-treatment attrition; Cardiac rehabiltation
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