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Using behavior change interventions in cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation: Perspectives from healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom

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posted on 2022-02-08, 15:21 authored by Eleanor M. Whittaker, Andrew Levy, Bashir Matata, Florence KinnafickFlorence Kinnafick, Adrian Midgley
This study explores healthcare professionals’ experiences of using behavior change interventions in clinical practice. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with eleven healthcare professionals working in a cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation National Health Service Trust in the United Kingdom. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Four overarching themes representing healthcare practitioners’ perceptions of using behavior change interventions were identified: 1) reliance on experiential learning; 2) knowledge transition; 3) existing professional development programs; and 4) barriers and facilitators for continued professional development. The results are discussed in relation to the implications they may have for behavior change training in clinical healthcare practice. Healthcare professionals require bespoke and formalized training to optimize their delivery of behavior change interventions in cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation. Doing so will enhance intervention fidelity and implementation that can potentially ameliorate patient rehabilitation outcomes.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volume

19

Issue

4

Publisher

MDPI AG

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© the Authors

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2022-02-06

Publication date

2022-02-10

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

1660-4601

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Florence Kinnafick. Deposit date: 8 February 2022

Article number

1980

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