MAKING MECC WORK

Our team is led by Professor Molly Byrne (Academic Principal Investigator) and Dr Maria O'Brien (Knowledge User Principal Investigator). Our team consists of HSE staff members, researchers from the Health Behaviour Change Research Group, members of the Health Psychology Public Advisory Panel and national and international academic co-applicants and collaborators. The team also work closely with the HSE MECC Implementation Group... We want to find out what makes it easy or difficult for healthcare professionals to deliver Making Every Contact Count (MECC) brief interventions. We also want to know what patients think about receiving MECC interventions. We use surveys, interviews and focus groups to gather evidence. We will work with our stakeholders to develop a collaborative implementation strategy to improve MECC.