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Using Action Plans to Help Primary Care Patients Adopt Healthy Behaviors: A Descriptive Study

Margaret Handley, Kate MacGregor, Dean Schillinger, Claire Sharifi, Sharon Wong and Thomas Bodenheimer
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2006, 19 (3) 224-231; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.19.3.224
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Abstract

Purpose: An action plan is an agreement between clinician and patient that the patient will make a specific behavior change. The goals of this study are to: determine whether it is feasible for patients to make action plans in the primary care visit; determine whether patients report carrying out their action plans; and describe the action plans patients choose.

Methods: Forty-three clinicians in 8 primary care sites were recruited to hold action-plan discussions with patients. Research assistants contacted patients by telephone 3 weeks later to assess whether patients had conducted their action plans.

Results: Eighty-three percent of enrolled patients (228) made an action plan during a primary care visit. Of the 79% who recalled making the action plan when interviewed by telephone 3 weeks later, 56% recalled the details of their action plan, and an additional 33% recalled the general nature of the action plan. At least 53% of patients making an action plan reported making a behavior change consistent with that action plan.

Conclusions: Most patients reported making a behavior change based on an action plan, suggesting that action plans may be a useful strategy to encourage behavior change for patients seen in primary care.

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Margaret Handley, Kate MacGregor, Dean Schillinger, Claire Sharifi, Sharon Wong, Thomas Bodenheimer
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2006, 19 (3) 224-231; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.19.3.224

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Margaret Handley, Kate MacGregor, Dean Schillinger, Claire Sharifi, Sharon Wong, Thomas Bodenheimer
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2006, 19 (3) 224-231; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.19.3.224
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