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Assessing integrity of MI in web-based treatments: a preliminary validation of the Motivational Interviewing Skill Code applied to the web-based treatment Look at your Drinking – an exploratory study
Hoeve, M.R. (2018) Assessing integrity of MI in web-based treatments: a preliminary validation of the Motivational Interviewing Skill Code applied to the web-based treatment Look at your Drinking – an exploratory study.
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| Abstract: | Motivational Interviewing (MI) is known to be a well-proven behavior change technique in face-to-face treatments. The Motivational Interviewing Skill Code (MISC) is an instrument to measure the treatment integrity of counselors applying MI in face-to-face treatments. MI is also applied in web-based treatments, but an instrument to measure treatment integrity does not exist for web-based treatments. The aim of this study is to validate the MISC and to make it more feasible for asynchronous communication in web-based interventions. After it was concluded that the MISC is feasible as it is, the MISC was applied to nine cases. It is expected that the MI-consistency measure can predict treatment outcome. This analysis is being conducted in three different ways. To gain insight in the relevant major differences for applying the MISC in web-based interventions an analysis based on the MISC-summary scores is applied. There is a significant strong negative correlation (r = -.84, n = 9, p = <.01) between the Percentage MI-Consistent Responses and the treatment outcome. This result is found to be consistent after comparing three different treatment outcomes with the MI-consistency. Although the counselors are compared with counselors applying MI in face-to-face, the counselors from these nine cases score as a beginner according to the MISC-summary scores. From this perspective the MISC is not a valid instrument for predicting treatment outcome, nor is it feasible in its current state. It is recommended to make methodological improvements to modify the MISC into a more feasible and valid measure instrument for measuring treatment integrity in web-based interventions. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Clients: | Tactus, Enschede, Netherlands |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology MSc (66604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/76570 |
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