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The Treatment Motivation Survey: defining patient motivation for treatment.

The Treatment Motivation Survey questionnaire is presented as a treatment planning tool designed to assist the patient and doctor in defining treatment expectations. With the Treatment Motivation Survey, motivation and expectations are mutually understood, and the treatment plan is successfully designed. Responses to the Treatment Motivation Survey questionnaire can also reveal patients whose expectations are unrealistic.

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Neurobiology of motivation: double dissociation of two motivational mechanisms mediating opiate reward in drug-naive versus drug-dependent animals.

Separate brain manipulations double dissociate two motivational mechanisms underlying the rewarding effects of opiates. Lesions of the brain stem tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus block the rewarding properties of morphine in drug-naive, but not in drug-dependent, rats. Neuroleptics (which block the action of the neurotransmitter dopamine) abolished opiate motivational effects in drug-dependent, but not in drug-naive, rats in place conditioning paradigms. This second dopaminergic opiate reward mechanism mediates morphine's alleviation of the withdrawal distress associated with abstinence in opiate-dependent animals. Furthermore, neuroleptic-induced blockade of food-related motivational effects in food-deprived, but not in food-sated (non-food-deprived), animals suggests that the neural substrates of motivational events do not dissociate along the line between different rewarding stimuli but along the line between deprivation and nondeprivation.

Animals↗

Motivational interviewing with personalized feedback: a brief intervention for motivating smokers with schizophrenia to seek treatment for tobacco dependence.

Individuals with schizophrenia have a much higher prevalence of tobacco smoking, a lower cessation rate, and a higher incidence of tobacco-related diseases than the general population. The initial challenge has been to motivate these individuals to quit smoking. This study tested whether motivational interviewing is effective in motivating smokers with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder to seek tobacco dependence treatment. Participants (N = 78) were randomly assigned to receive a 1-session motivational interviewing (MI) intervention, standard psychoeducational counseling, or advice only. As hypothesized, a greater proportion of participants receiving the MI intervention contacted a tobacco dependence treatment provider (32%, 11%, and 0%, respectively) and attended the 1st session of counseling (28%, 9%. and 0%) by the 1-month follow-up as compared with those receiving comparison interventions.

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Goal orientation profile differences on perceived motivational climate, perceived peer relationships, and motivation-related responses of youth athletes.

The aims of this study were twofold: (a) to determine if dispositional achievement goal orientation profiles that are reported in the literature would be observed in a sample of youth athletes, and (b) to examine potential achievement goal orientation profile differences on perceptions of the motivational climate, perceptions of peer relationships, and motivation-related responses. Male soccer players (n=223) aged 9-12 years (mean=10.9, s=0.6) completed a multi-section questionnaire containing assessments of dispositional goal (task, ego) orientations, the perceived task- and ego-involving features of the motivational climate, perceived peer acceptance and friendship quality (positive friendship quality, conflict), perceived ability, soccer enjoyment, and satisfaction with one's performance and the team. Four profiles were observed that closely matched those observed by Hodge and Petlichkoff (2000), though in the present study a lower proportion of participants exhibited achievement goal profiles consisting of relatively high ego orientation. Achievement goal profile differences were found for all variables except positive friendship quality, with a general trend for those reporting relatively lower task goal orientation to exhibit less adaptive responses. Overall, the findings support achievement goal frameworks (e.g. Nicholls, 1989) and suggest that further examination of dispositional achievement goals may afford a deeper understanding of social relationships and motivational processes in youth sport.

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Patient motives and fulfillment of motives in renewal of complete dentures.

Seventy-four edentulous patients were interviewed concerning their opinion of their old dentures, motives for renewing them, and requirements for new ones. After an initial period of adaptation they were asked questions relating to their experience with the new dentures. More than 80% of the patients claimed to have functional motives for renewing their old dentures. A similar proportion had functional requirements with regard to the new ones. Less than 30% claimed to have any esthetic motives. Examination of the data, however, suggests that the esthetic factor may be underrecorded. The patient motives, as recorded, were only weakly correlated to the overall acceptance of new dentures. More than 90% found their new dentures as expected or better than expected.

Consumer Behavior↗

Cross-cultural validation of the Inventory of School Motivation (ISM): Motivation Orientations of Navajo and Anglo students.

The Motivation Orientation scales of the Inventory of School Motivation (ISM) were validated across Navajo (n = 760) and Anglo (n = 1012) students in the U.S. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the 8-factor structure of motivation orientations for the total sample and the Navajo and Anglo subsamples, although Navajo students did not distinguish well between the Effort and Task constructs. However, of 39 survey items, only 30 items were invariant across groups in factor loadings on respective a priori constructs. The findings show that even though the ISM Motivation Orientation scales are applicable to students of different cultural backgrounds, meaningful cross-cultural comparisons should use the 30 items that mean the same to both cultural groups; whereas studies that do not involve cross-cultural comparisons may use the complete version of the scales.

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Dual Diagnosis Motivational Interviewing: a modification of Motivational Interviewing for substance-abusing patients with psychotic disorders.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a brief treatment approach for helping patients develop intrinsic motivation to change addictive behaviors. While initially developed to target primary substance using populations, professionals are increasingly recognizing the promise this approach has for addressing the motivational dilemmas faced by patients who have co-occurring psychiatric and psychoactive substance use disorders. Unfortunately, this recognition has not lead to a clear explication of how MI might be adopted for specific diagnostic populations of dually diagnosed patients. In this article we describe how we have applied the principles and practices of MI to patients who have psychotic disorders and co-occurring drug or alcohol use problems. Specifically, we provide two supplemental guidelines to augment basic MI principles (adopting an integrated dual diagnosis approach, accommodating cognitive impairments and disordered thinking). We present recommended modifications to primary MI skill sets (simplifying open-ended questions, refining reflective listening skills, heightening emphasis on affirmation, integrating psychiatric issues into personalized feedback and decisional balance matrices). Finally, we highlight other clinical considerations (handling psychotic exacerbation and crisis events, recommended professional qualifications) when using MI with psychotic disordered dually diagnosed patients.

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A multiple motives approach to tobacco dependence: the Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives (WISDM-68).

The dependence construct fills an important explanatory role in motivational accounts of smoking and relapse. Frequently used measures of dependence are either atheoretical or grounded in a unidimensional model of physical dependence. This research creates a multidimensional measure of dependence that is based on theoretically grounded motives for drug use and is intended to reflect mechanisms underlying dependence. Data collected from a large sample of smokers (N = 775) indicated that all 13 subscales of the Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives (WISDM-68) have acceptable internal consistency, are differentially present across levels of smoking heaviness, and have a multidimensional structure. Validity analyses indicated the WISDM-68 subscales are significantly related to dependence criteria such as smoking heaviness and to 4th edition Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders symptoms of dependence and relapse.

Humans↗

Chronic stress impairs spatial memory and motivation for reward without disrupting motor ability and motivation to explore.

This study uses an operant, behavioral model to assess the daily changes in the decay rate of short-term memory, motivation, and motor ability in rats exposed to chronic restraint. Restraint decreased reward-related motivation by 50% without altering memory decay rate or motor ability. Moreover, chronic restraint impaired hippocampal-dependent spatial memory on the Y maze (4-hr delay) and produced CA3 dendritic retraction without altering hippocampal-independent maze navigation (1-min delay) or locomotion. Thus, mechanisms underlying motivation for food reward differ from those underlying Y maze exploration, and neurobiological substrates of spatial memory, such as the hippocampus, differ from those that underlie short-term memory. Chronic restraint produces functional, neuromorphological, and physiological alterations that parallel symptoms of depression in humans.

Adrenal Glands↗

The art of motivating behavior change: the use of motivational interviewing to promote health.

Health promotion and disease prevention have always been essential to public health nursing. With the changing health care system and an increased emphasis on cost-containment, the role of the nurse is expanding even more into this arena. A challenge for public health nurses, then, is to motivate and facilitate health behavior change in working with individuals, families, and communities and designing programs based on theory. Leading causes of death continue to relate to health behaviors that require change. The purpose of this article is to integrate theory with practice by describing the Transtheoretical Model of Change as well as the principles of motivational interviewing that can be used in motivating behavioral change. A case scenario is presented to illustrate the use of the models with effective interviewing skills that can be used to enhance health. Implications for practice with an emphasis on providing an individually tailored matched intervention is stressed.

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Age-group differences in intrinsic motivation, goal orientations and perceptions of athletic competence, physical appearance and motivational climate in Greek physical education.

This study examined age-group differences in students' motivation, self-perceptions, task and ego orientations and perception of motivational climate in Greek physical education lessons. Six hundred and seventy-four students aged 10-17 years responded on self-reports which, in this study, had acceptable internal consistencies. The results showed that senior high school students scored lower on the scales assessing intrinsic motivation, perceived learning orientation in the lesson, task orientation and perceived athletic ability than junior high school and elementary school students. High school students had lower scores on the Perceived Physical Appearance scale and higher scores on the measure assessing perceptions of students' worries about mistakes than elementary school students. The results suggest that learning orientation should be strengthened in Greek physical education.

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Mercy: an insufficient motive for euthanasia. Catholic ethical tradition requires that we temper our motives with reason and care before acting.

Some experts argue that acts of assisted suicide and euthanasia are ethically appropriate because they are merciful. Compelling though it is, this argument is not sufficient for determining the morality of these acts. The ethical tradition that calls for mercy has never suggested that mercy is, by itself, a sufficient criterion for determining an act's moral appropriateness. Human motives are rarely, if ever, pure and objective. For that reason, our ethical tradition has insisted on tempering motives with reason and care. The criteria for determining when it is merciful to assist in another's suicide or engage in an act of euthanasia are, for all practical purposes, impossible to define. Commonly writers refer to a person's hopeless condition to justify the merciful response of assisted suicide or euthanasia. But unless we can agree on whether hopelessness is an objective or subjective reality, and until the criteria to define this reality are evident, it is difficult to see how assisted suicide or euthanasia can be a careful and reasoned expression of mercy. Only by examining one's intention can one judge whether an act that may appear to be merciful in a hopeless situation is appropriate. "Intention" refers to the reasoned decision or judgment one makes about a goal and the means used to achieve that goal. Even if we cannot control our emotional response (our motives) in a particular situation, we can control our judgment (our intentions). Within our moral tradition, we can be sure we are being merciful in a careful and reasoned way when we intend to protect and promote the good of life.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Autoradiographic comparison of neuronal and glial protein metabolism in rat hippocampus after food-motivated or footshock-motivated conditioning.

Quantitative autoradiography has shown that initial food-motivated conditioning results in an increase in 3H-phenylalanine incorporation into cytoplasmic proteins of rat hippocampal neurons. After 3 daily conditioning trials, the incorporation returned to an active control (pseudoconditioning) level while after 6 daily trials, the incorporation was decreased. No changes were revealed in the cells of hippocampal perineuronal glia. Four hours after a footshock-motivated passive avoidance trial, incorporation of 3H-phenylalanine was increased both in the neurons and in their perineuronal glia of rat hippocampus. By the time of a consolidation of this conditioning, such increase still remained perineuronal glia. An importance of the emotional background is outlined for a participation of glial cells in learning-induced metabolic changes in the nervous system.

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Motivating employees. Applying motivational theories to nursing.

Managers provide the critical link between the delivery of nursing care and the administration. It is vital for nurse managers to provide a work environment that supports professional nursing practices. Staff nurses are taught how to carry out clinical functions. For them to develop and practice advanced clinical skills, managers have to buffer the pressures of daily operations. They must ask themselves, "Am I committed to my employees?" "Am I an enthusiastic role model for my employees?" "Do I use positive motivating techniques?" "Do I know each of my employees personally as a unique individual?" "What can I do to create an environment that supports my employees?" and "How can I make each of my employees feel respected and worthy?" If the manager, whether experienced or not, can answer these questions honestly and apply motivational techniques differently, he or she will be the best kind of manager: a true leader.

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How does motivational interviewing work? Therapist interpersonal skill predicts client involvement within motivational interviewing sessions.

Although many studies have shown that motivational interviewing (MI) is effective in reducing problem behaviors, few have investigated purported causal mechanisms. Therapist interpersonal skills have been proposed as an influence on client involvement during MI sessions and as a necessary precursor to client commitment language. Using the Motivational Interviewing Skills Code (MISC; Version 1.0) rating system, the authors investigated 103 unique MI sessions for substance abuse and found that therapist interpersonal skills were positively associated with client involvement as defined by cooperation, disclosure and expression of affect. An unexpected finding indicated that behaviors inconsistent with MI enhanced the impact of therapist interpersonal skills upon client involvement. Drawbacks to the study include a potential sampling bias and uneven reliability of the variables measured.

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The development of an instrument to measure motivation for marathon running: the Motivations of Marathoners Scales (MOMS).

This study reports the development of an instrument to assess the motives of marathon runners. The Motivations of Marathoners Scales (MOMS) contains 56 items distributed across nine scales. Content areas covered included health orientation, weight concern, self-esteem, life meaning, psychological coping, affiliation, recognition, competition, and personal goal achievement. Adequate internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha range .80 to .93), retest reliability (intraclass Rs range .71 to .90), and factorial validity of the scales were demonstrated. Assessment of the relationship between individual MOMS scales and other variables of conceptual relevance documents early evidence for the convergent and discriminant validity of the instrument. Future uses of the MOMS are discussed in light of theoretical, empirical, and practical considerations.

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Motivation for treatment in substance-dependent patients. Psychometric evaluation of the TCU motivation for treatment scales.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the psychometric properties of the TCU Motivation for Treatment (MfT) scale in alcohol- and drug-dependent patients in an inpatient treatment facility in the Netherlands, to see whether it is useful in European populations as well. In the study, 279 consecutive patients were enrolled: 132 drug and 147 alcohol dependents. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis revealed 4 subscales: recognition of general problems (4 items), recognition of specific problems (5), desire for help (5) and treatment readiness (8). The results of the analyses showed that the MfT scale is a valid instrument for measuring treatment motivation, both in drug- and in alcohol-dependent patients. We demonstrated evidence for consistency of the scale through cultural barriers, in different populations and in different treatment settings.

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Gender-related motivational differences in participation in an organized seniors fitness program: moving beyond sex-role stereotypic motives.

Primary reasons for senior adults' participation in a fitness program were examined in two groups to assess gender-related differences. 30 senior adults or "beginners" had just enrolled in the program, while 43 "veterans" had participated for about three years. Among "beginners" women were more likely to participate because "daytime meetings were offered" and "people I trust recommend it" but there were no gender differences among "veterans." Close examination of responses indicated that differences among "beginners" no longer obtained because "veteran" men's motivations increased to resemble those of women. Examination of these motivational shifts as well as those which approached significance is in progress with a larger sample.

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