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What next for behaviour change professional development in general practice? Insights from an environmental scan and workshops

Bryce Brickley, Jenny Advocat, Tze Lin Chai, Mitchell Bowden, Elizabeth Rieger, Lauren Ball, Raeann Ng, Nilakshi Gunatillaka and Elizabeth Ann Sturgiss
BJGP Open 2024; 8 (2): BJGPO.2023.0187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2023.0187
Bryce Brickley
1 College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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Jenny Advocat
2 School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Monash University Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Clayton, Australia
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Tze Lin Chai
2 School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Monash University Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Clayton, Australia
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2 School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Monash University Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Clayton, Australia
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3 Australian National University Research School of Psychology, Canberra, Australia
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4 The University of Queensland, Centre for Community Health & Wellbeing, Brisbane, Australia
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    Table 1. Environmental scan results: awareness of existing behaviour change tools and organisations that provide behaviour change professional development opportunities
    QuestionCategoryResponse, n
    Are you aware of any organisations that provide professional development for workers wanting to change behaviour in others (this could be in industry such as health care, education, law)? If so, please list (viable responses n = 14) Unaware of organisations that provide professional development opportunities 4
    Professional organisations in health
    • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

    • Other professional or member-based organisations

    11
    Academia
    • Australian University

    1
    Independent, not-for-profit, or volunteer organisations in health
    • Volunteer organisations in health care

    • Independent, not-for-profit organisations in health

    5
    Are you aware of any tools that exist for workers who strive to facilitate behaviour change in others? (viable responses n = 33) Unaware of tools that exist for workers 4
    Aware of tools that exist for workers, however, unable to describe 2
    Clinical guidelines
    • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

    3
    Behaviour change programmes
    • Online

    • Unspecified if online or face-to-face

    4
    Behaviour change frameworks
    • Consultation frameworks

    • Change management frameworks

    11
    Learnt interventions
    • Psychological therapy

    1
    Medicare funded
    • Physician-led

    • Nurse-led

    3
    Decision support tools
    • Patient decision aids

    • Risk-assessment tools

    2
    Formal tertiary education
    • Bachelor level

    1
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    Table 2. Environmental scan results: preferences for new behaviour change tools and behaviour change professional development opportunities
    QuestionCategoryResponses, n
    If we were to create a behaviour change professional development opportunity, what should we consider to make it most useful to you? (viable responses n = 34) Modality
    • Online

    • Online and face-to-face

    5
    Design
    • Asynchronous

    • Free or easy to access

    • Easy to use

    • Brief

    • Logical to work through

    • Evidence-based

    • Applicable to broad range of behaviours or conditions

    • Advanced training options

    • Appropriately remunerated for the professional

    • PD opportunities for GPs should be tailored towards the individual doctor and their patient profile

    13
    Content and activities
    • Effective audio-visual resources

    • Concise, unambiguous language

    • Small group reflection

    • Opportunity for reflective writing

    • Helping the professional measure success

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    • Webinar

    • Modelling language

    • Understanding deeper motivations

    • Trust and therapeutic relationship

    • A range of behaviour change examples

    12
    Delivery
    • Professionalised

    • Incorporated into routine practice or existing systems

    • Can be patient-led and started outside consultation hours

    4
    If we were to create a behaviour change tool, what should we consider to make it most helpful to you? (viable responses n = 32) Design
    • Free or easy to access

    • Easy to use

    • Versatile

    • Brief

    • Evidence-based

    • Practical

    • Patient acceptability

    21
    Content
    • Culturally sensitive

    • Gender-sensitive

    • Easily understood

    • Complementary patient and provider material

    • Patient-centric

    • Diversity

    6
    Delivery
    • Incorporated into routine practice or existing systems

    • Ongoing evaluation

    5
    • PD = professional development

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