Fidelity and maintenance of motivational interviewing skills in diabetes prevention program coaches: a pilot study

Motivational interviewing (MI) is an effective counseling style for changing lifestyle behaviors. The purpose of this study was to pilot a brief MI workshop on non-healthcare practitioners deliver community-based diabetes prevention program. Participants (n = 5) attended two-day workshop, shadowed expert coach delivering the program, and finally, were by received feedback. pre- post-workshop skills assessed, participants’ satisfaction with recorded, their delivery program using assessed random selection audio recordings interactions client. primary outcome whether coaches able maintain level client-centered six months post-training, as Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA). One session one client per month coaches’ first post-training coded. Counseling scores generated MICA. In general, showed improvements from post-workshop, satisfied training, care over six-month period. majority (80%) all sessions MICA categories. This offers preliminary evidence that attending training coaching in up without use any booster sessions. suggests used within may be sufficient train future practitioner community.