Introduction
- Brief interventions may be used to give individuals an opportunity to consider their lifestyle behaviours and the effect these behaviours may have on their health
- Brief interventions may:
- Be used by a range of healthcare professionals
- Involve the provision of opportunistic advice, discussion, negotiation or encouragement
- Range from offering simple, generalised advice to more extensive individualised advice
- May consist of one session or several
- Brief interventions are easy to implement, and are a cost-effective health promotion tool
Page last reviewed: 25 Feb 2022
