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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2009 Mar;23(1):146–151. doi: 10.1037/a0013789

Table 1.

Means and SDs on the Motivational Interview (MI) Treatment Integrity Code (N = 11)

M SD
Empathy 5.55 0.69
Spirit 5.00 0.63
Information 2.33 1.41
MI true 3.00 1.55
MI untrue 0.30 0.48
Closed questions 24.09 5.43
Open questions 12.85 5.06
Simple reflections 4.36 1.69
Complex reflections 1.27 1.49

Note. During 20 minutes of each interview, the following variables were rated. Empathy = extent to which the interviewer understood the participants perspective rated on a seven-point Likert scale ranging from low to high; Spirit = extent to which the interviewer showed MI adherence on a seven-point Likert scale ranging from low to high; Information = total number of times information was given; MI true = total number of times interviewer acted according to MI standards; MI untrue = total number of times interviewer acted not according to MI standards; Closed questions = number of closed-ended questions; Open questions = number of open-ended questions; Simple reflections = number of reflections that expressed understanding or a paraphrase of the participants words; Complex reflections = number of reflections that expressed a deeper value of the participants words.