Expert Coaching in Weight Loss: Retrospective Analysis.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Providing coaches as part of a weight management program is a common practice to increase participant engagement and weight loss success. Understanding coach and participant interactions and how these interactions impact weight loss success needs to be further explored for coaching best practices. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to analyze the coach and participant interaction in a 6-month weight loss intervention administered by Retrofit, a personalized weight management and Web-based disease prevention solution. The study specifically examined the association between different methods of coach-participant interaction and weight loss and tried to understand the level of coaching impact on weight loss outcome. METHODS:A retrospective analysis was performed using 1432 par

SUBMITTER: Painter SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5871741 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature