<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MacGregor, Kate</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Handley, Margaret</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wong, Sharon</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sharifi, Claire</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gjeltema, Ken</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schillinger, Dean</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bodenheimer, Thomas</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Behavior-Change Action Plans in Primary Care: A Feasibility Study of Clinicians</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006-05-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">215-223</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3122/jabfm.19.3.215</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">19</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Purpose: Collaborative goal-setting—with clinician and patient together deciding on concrete behavior-change goals—may be more effective in encouraging healthy behaviors than traditional clinician-directed advice. This study explores whether it is feasible for clinicians to engage patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors in collaborative goal-setting and concrete action planning during the primary care visit.Methods: Primary care clinicians were trained in goal-setting and action planning techniques and asked to conduct action plan discussions with study patients during medical visits. Clinicians’ experiences were documented through post-visit surveys and with questionnaires and semistructured interviews at the end of the study.Results: Forty-three clinicians and 274 patients with CHD risk factors participated in the study; 83% of the patient encounters resulted in a behavior-change action plan. Goal-setting discussions lasted an average of 6.9 minutes. Clinicians rated 75% of the discussions as equally or more satisfying than previous behavior-change discussions, and identified time constraints as the most important barrier to adopting the goal-setting process.Conclusions: Collaborative goal-setting between clinicians and patients for improved health behaviors is viewed favorably by clinicians in primary care. Time constraints could be addressed by delegating goal-setting to other caregivers.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>