A randomized trial of a theory-driven model of health coaching for older adults: short-term and sustained outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthy Lifetime, a theoretically driven, personalized health coaching program delivered electronically, including face-to-face videoconferencing, was developed to intervene in early aging to stave off functional decline and minimize the onset/exacerbation of chronic conditions.

Objective

To determine the efficacy of a theoretically driven, personalized health coaching program in participants 50 years and older with one or more chronic conditions using a randomized, controlled, pragmatic clinical trial methodology.

Methods

Participants were randomly assigned to the HL (n = 59) or a usual care (n = 63) group. The HL group received health coaching from a trained nurse over eight weeks. Outcomes were measured at baseline, eight weeks, and 20 weeks (after the 1

SUBMITTER: Potempa K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10552322 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature