The Change Questionnaire predicts change in hazardous tobacco and alcohol use

Assessing motivation for change is deemed an important step in the treatment process that allows further refinement of the intervention in motivational interviewing (MI) and brief MI adaptations (BMI). During MI (and BMI) sessions, motivation for change is expressed by the client as “change talk”, i.e. all statements inclined toward or away from change. We tested the predictive validity of the