Article: Nurse-led motivational interviewing to change the lifestyle of patients with type 2 diabetes (MILD-project): protocol for a cluster, randomized, controlled trial on implementing lifestyle recommendations.(Study protocol)(Report)

Authors: Renate Jansink (corresponding author) [1]; Joz é Braspenning [1]; Trudy van der Weijden [2]; Louis Niessen [3,4]; Glyn Elwyn [5]; Richard Grol [1]

Background

Professionals' performance in lifestyle counseling is suboptimal, yet it is very important that healthcare providers promote healthful behaviors for patients with type 2 diabetes[1, 2]. There are studies indicating that healthful diet and physical activity decrease insulin resistance and improve glycemic control, lipid abnormalities, and hypertension, thereby lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) [3, 4, 5, 6]. Smoking is known to be particularly dangerous; it ...

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