Brief Telephonic Motivational Interviewing for People Living with HIV with Follow-up Problems.

Motivational interviewing (MI)-based interventions can be effective for people living with HIV (PLWHIV) with medical follow-up problems. This study aimed to assess the stage of motivation to attend medical appointments of PLWHIV with medical follow-up problems and to evaluate a single telephone session MI intervention directed to engage them in care. The change in stage was evaluated before and after the intervention, and attending medical appointments was monitored for six months. Thirty-nine PLWHIV participated; 51.3% were in precontemplation/contemplation and 49.7% in preparation/action stage. Most (excluding those in the action stage from the beginning) (n = 22, 71.0%) advanced to another stage after the intervention (z = - 4.235, p < .001), and most did not miss the following appointments. Brief and remote MI interventions could be useful in low-resource settings, especially for those in the early stages of change, to explore motivations related with missing medical appointments.

Parent-child interactions predict anxiety in Mexican adolescents.

On the basis of consistent antecedents linking anxiety and maladaptive problems such as school failure, substance abuse, and somatic complaints, a retrospective study was conducted in order to gain understanding of more specific parenting variables related to anxiety in 3,432 Mexican adolescents. Data were collected through the application of the Health, Lifestyles and Behavior Inventory which contains sections measuring typical psychological complaints, family interaction and child-rearing practices, and socioeconomic variables. Factor analysis produced three anxiety-related factors and two parent-child interaction factors. Significant negative correlations were found between desirable father-child and mother-child interactions for all three anxiety factors.