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Entrevista motivacional

Adherencia Efectiva: El Rol Crucial de la Entrevista Motivacional en la Gestión de la Medicación.

La falta de adherencia a la medicación es un desafío generalizado en la atención sanitaria, que provoca una significativa morbilidad, mortalidad y elevados costes sanitarios.1 La entrevista motivacional (IM) ha emergido como un enfoque prometedor para mejorar la adherencia, al abordar las barreras psicológicas que dificultan el cumplimiento del tratamiento. Entendiendo la Entrevista Motivacional La…

Is nudging enough to achieve behavioral changes at short notice?

Nudging is a powerful tool in helping people make the right decisions without forcing them to do so. It has been widely used by public authorities to help the general public adopt behaviors beneficial to them, that otherwise they would tend not to adopt. In his groundbreaking book “Nudge”, Nobel prize winner Richard Thaler gives…

Pandemic outbreak management: a behavioral science perspective

Pandemics are not new to the humankind, and the coronavirus is just the latest (and most probably not the last) of them. A considerable number of the pandemics were dealt with medically, through vaccination.1,2 This was the case for polio, smallpox, rubella, to name but few. These diseases had been killing great numbers of people…