Motivational Interviewing for HCV Elimination

Assessing a Model for Hepatitis C Elimination: Measuring Patient and Health System Outcomes After Motivational Interviewing Interventions to Increase Treatment Engagement

This study addresses a difficult barrier to hepatitis C elimination, specifically development and maintenance of a productive relationship between the health care provider and patient to ensure both treatment success and engagement in harm reduction services. Improvements in these domains may be observed through the use of a technique called "Motivational Interviewing" (MI). The aim of this study is to determine whether a customized motivational interviewing curriculum by general primary care and addictions medicine primary care providers changes rates of curative hepatitis C therapy completion.

Patient Inclusion Criteria:

• Willingness to participate and provide informed consent
• Positive HCV RNA Result
• ≥18 years of age

Patient Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwilling or unable to provide consent

Health Care Provider Inclusion Criteria:

• Willingness to participate and provide informed consent
• Has a hepatitis C care experience

Health Care Provider Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwilling or unable to provide consent