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Motivational interviewing is the best technique to get patients to change behaviors that adversely effect their physical or mental health. The OARS mnemonic can help health care providers ask better questions of their patients and respond to their answers.

Emily Fenton, a PA student at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, explains.

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