Enhancing engagement in evidence-based tobacco cessation treatment for smokers with mental illness: A pilot randomized trial

Telephone veteran peer coaching for mental health treatment engagement among rural veterans: The importance of secondary outcomes and qualitative data in a randomized controlled trial

“…Additionally, intervention participants received a mean of 2.6 of 4 motivational coaching sessions, suggesting that dose may have been attenuated, although other studies with fewer doses of MI have achieved treatment engagement. 18 …”

“…[11][12][13] Motivational interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based approach to facilitating behavioral change, 14 and multiple studies over decades have demonstrated MI's effectiveness for MH treatment engagement among veterans. [15][16][17][18] One pilot trial of 73 younger Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who screened positive for MH symptoms (i.e., posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD], depression, anxiety, etc.) demonstrated that 4 brief sessions of telephone MI conducted by trained research staff resulted in 62% initiating MH treatment versus 26% assigned to receive 4 brief neutral telephone sessions (relative risk = 2.41, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.33-4.37; Cohen's h = 0.74).…”