Robyn Lutz
Ohio Health Community and Wellness, USA
Biography
Robyn Lutz has been a nurse for 33 years. Her passion is in working with adolescents to unleash their positive potential and to provide them with holistic guidance in their health care journey. Her presentation is based on a randomized controlled trial which was conducted from 2010-2016 using Motivational Interviewing and facilitated contraceptive access to prevent rapid repeat pregnancy in adolescents. “Motivational Interviewing Is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person’s own motivation and commitment to change” (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). This study was funded by The Family and Youth Services Bureau of the United States Health and Human Services Dept. The highly rated RCT study showed strong and sustained effects on reducing rapid repeat pregnancy and thus promoting healthy birth spacing.