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BMi2 - Brief Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Body Mass Index

PI: Kenneth Resnicow, PhD
affiliation: University of Michigan School of Public Health
topic: obesity, weight management, children, youth, parents, pediatricians, dieticians, motivational interviewing, patient self-management, disease management, communications, DVD, training
medium: DVD
audience: pediatric health care providers
grant: Healthy Lifestyles for Children
sponsor: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and CDC Foundation
dates: 2006-06-01 - 2009-05-31

BMi2 - Brief Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Body Mass Index

BMi2 is a DVD for pediatricians and dietitians that have completed a 2-day intensive motivational interviewing (MI) training session. The DVD is a take-home resource that offers additional practice in the core MI skills of reflective listening, building motivation, and eliciting change talk. In this DVD, the application of MI is used to help prevent and treat pediatric obesity, including nuances of working with parents of young children as well as working directly with older children.