Patients in this study have been visiting a RN for lifestyle
discussions from three to several visits during four
years. Those patients who have been on several visits
could not specify how many lifestyle discussions they
had and the RNs were either not asked how many times
each patient had met her for lifestyle discussions, which
can be seen as a limitation. Furthermore, there was no
feedback from the interviewer to the RN about the interviews
with the patients. In order to achieve lifestyle
changes Miller & Rollnick [24] describe that patients
need to be exposed to a certain “dose” of MI. The number
of lifestyle discussions can thus be related to the patients’
experience. Nevertheless the result shows that the
patients are unanimous in their positive experience of
MI whether they have been on many or few visits, which
may be because they have experienced the spirit of MI.
This has previously been described by Miller & Rollnick
[15] as very important for MI. The result of the present
study might therefore be important to better understand
patients’ perceptions of provider interactions between
the patient and RN when MI is employed