Cost-effectiveness of telephone coaching for physically inactive ambulatory care hospital patients: economic evaluation alongside the Healthy4U randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess whether telephone coaching is a cost-effective method for increasing physical activity and health-related quality of life for insufficiently active adults presenting to an ambulatory care clinic in a public hospital.

Design

An economic evaluation was performed alongside a randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Participants were recruited from an ambulatory care clinic in a public hospital in regional Australia.

Participants

Seventy-two adults (aged 18-69) deemed insufficiently physically active via self-report.

Interventions

Participants were randomised to either an intervention group that received an education session and eight sessions of telephone coaching over a 12-week period, or to a control group that received the education sessi

SUBMITTER: Barrett S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924747 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature