Tools for Being a Helpful Peer Partner - DVD

PI: Michele Heisler, MD, MPH affiliation: University of Michigan Medical School topic: heart disease, congestive heart failure, CHF, motivational interviewing, patient self-management, disease management, peer-to-peer communications, DVD, training medium: DVD audience: Adults who have congestive heart failure grant: Mobilizing Peer Support for Effective Heart Failure Self-Management sponsor: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute number: 1 R01 HL085420-01 dates: 2006-08-01 - 2010-04-30

This DVD is one portion of a larger study (Mobilizing Peer Support for Effective Heart Failure Self-Management) being conducted by Dr. Michele Heisler. The goal of the DVD is to teach people with congestive heart failure how to support each other in managing their illness via phone calls to each other. The DVD describes and models Motivational Interviewing (MI) style communication skills for peer-to-peer communications. The DVD explains the basics of MI style communications and provides numerous examples of peer-to-peer conversations that use MI techniques.