This week we finally touched
on the topic of ‘why do people conduct behaviours that are harmful to their
health despite knowing the risks’ and attempted to apply this knowledge to
Motivation Interviewing (MI) among our peers.
I found the concept of health
(be it of risk or enhancing) behaviour being fluid and a long-term process very
interesting and motivating, as this certainly shed some light into the
importance of our role as community pharmacists in counselling and
consultations with patients whether or not they are motivated to make a change
to improve their health. In fact, almost everyone does so, by distorting the chance
of real risk and becoming ambivalent. By understanding this, I will be able to be
as compassionate that is not just blinded by emotions but a supported
understanding of the natural psychological processes patients go through to
make them the individual we meet in the consultation room. This concept echoed
with last week’s learning that all behaviours are products of logical process
of the individual, whether or not he/she is aware of it.
I
am planning to complete the BMJ learning module in MI, which I believe will be
of great help in engaging the uptake of enhanced and advanced services of the
branch of community pharmacy I will be working in. Not only will I be rewarded
with the satisfaction of helping a patient but there will be an increased
revenue for my branch and company for further improvement of our services.
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