Using Behavior Change Questionnaires to Tailor Personalized Health Communications in Pharmacy Practice

摘要

Health behavior change is often viewed as the rate-limiting step in a lifestyle medicine program. Health behavior change strategies that are tailored to an individual patient's needs may help him/her become more successful at reaching his/her personal health goals. Based on the Transthe-oretical Model of Behavior Change, this article provides an example of using "Readiness to Participate in Lifestyle Behaviors" and "Confidence to Participate in Lifestyle Behaviors" questionnaires in a community pharmacy lifestyle medicine program to tailor health communications. The questionnaires are important to the program for setting individual patient goals and for assessing a patient's progress in the lifestyle medicine program.