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Facilitating Health Behavior Change: Easy as ABC

TIMOTHY D. RILEY, MD
ADAM NEUFELD, MSC, MD, CCFP
GREGORY GULDNER, MD, MS, FACEP

FPM. 2025;32(4):8-14.

Author disclosures: no relevant financial relationships.

This content conforms to AAFP criteria for CME.

These simple strategies based on self-determination theory can help you maximize your patients’ motivation to change.

Dr. Riley is professor and associate vice chair for wellness, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Penn State, Hershey, Pa.

Dr. Neufeld is clinical lecturer, Department of Family Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Can.

Dr. Guldner is vice president of academic affairs, HCA Healthcare Graduate Medical Education, and clinical professor of emergency medicine, University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, Calif.

This research was supported (in whole or in part) by HCA Healthcare and/or an HCA Healthcare affiliated entity.

The views expressed in this publication represent those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of HCA Healthcare or any of its affiliated entities.

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