TY - JOUR UR - https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.508 DO - 10.7717/peerj.508 TI - Motivational interviewing may facilitate professional interactions with inspectees during environmental inspections and enforcement conversations AU - Forsberg,Lars AU - Wickström,Hans AU - Källmén,Håkan A2 - Costanza,Robert DA - 2014/08/19 PY - 2014 KW - Behaviour change KW - Intervention KW - Environmental behaviour KW - Environmental inspections and enforcement KW - Motivational interviewing AB - In the present work inspectors used Motivational Interviewing (MI) to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour in inspectees. MI is a counselling method with scientific support for various health behaviour changes. Inspectors (n = 32) in four Swedish municipalities received training in MI over a yearlong period. Their MI competency as well as their experience of using MI in routine inspections was monitored over the year. The results showed that inspectors significantly increased their competence in the Empathy variable, defined as accurate listening to inspectees. Inspectors judged MI to be useful in inspections, approximately 5 on the 6-point scale. There were indications that MI may be easier or more appropriate to use in certain inspections than in others. VL - 2 SP - e508 T2 - PeerJ JO - PeerJ J2 - PeerJ SN - 2167-8359 ER -