Health coaching as a lifestyle medicine process in primary care
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BACKGROUND: Lifestyle medicine is a relatively new approach to managing lifestyle-related disease. Health coaching is an integral part of lifestyle medicine that can be used to facilitate behaviour change in key lifestyle areas. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to familiarise general practitioners with the emerging discipline of health coaching and show its effectiveness in primary care. DISCUSSION: The recognition that the traditional healthcare approach is not fully effective at supporting health behaviour change in an era of chronic diseases has led to the emergence and growth of a new approach to the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related diseases - the practice of health coaching.
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The appropriateness of health coaching as an underused strategy for cancer survivorship interventions is suggested.
“suggesting the appropriateness of this underused strategy for cancer survivorship interventions.”
From A digital, coach-assisted intervention to address the psychosocial needs of young adult cancer survivors: Randomized controlled trial protocol and intervention adaptation process (2024) · cites this paper as [48]
The ‘What is health coaching?’ and ‘Evidence to support health coaching’ sections describe health coaching as useful for chronic-condition management and report improvements in health outcomes and behaviours. They do not address cancer survivorship interventions or establish that health coaching is underused in that setting. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredHealth coaching may be a valuable strategy in the context of cancer survivorship interventions, particularly those focused on psychosocial well-being.
“health coaching may be a valuable strategy in the context of cancer survivorship interventions, particularly those focused on psychosocial well-being [48].”
From A digital, coach-assisted intervention to address the psychosocial needs of young adult cancer survivors: Randomized controlled trial protocol and intervention adaptation process (2024) · cites this paper as [48]
The Summary (page not specified) says health coaching in primary care can improve psychological and social outcomes, supporting its potential value for psychosocial well-being. The paper does not address cancer survivorship interventions, so it does not support that setting-specific part of the claim. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThere is limited use of scalable approaches, like digital health and health coaching, in interventions for YA survivors.
“limited use of scalable approaches, like digital health [9, 12, 46] and health coaching [48]”
From A digital, coach-assisted intervention to address the psychosocial needs of young adult cancer survivors: Randomized controlled trial protocol and intervention adaptation process (2024) · cites this paper as [48]
The Key points and Modes of delivery sections describe health coaching as a behaviour-change approach that can be delivered in person or remotely. The paper does not address interventions for young adult survivors or establish that health coaching is used only to a limited extent in that population. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredHealth coaching interventions have shown positive effects on healthcare system and provider outcomes.
“as well as healthcare system and provider outcomes (e.g., provider job satisfaction, patient satisfaction with services/outcomes) [48]”
Health coaching incorporates evidence-based interventions and techniques from behavioral medicine literature to address health promotion, prevention, early intervention, treatment, and management of chronic conditions.
“Health coaching incorporates evidence-based interventions and techniques from behavioral medicine literature (e.g., positive psychology, health psychology) to address health promotion, prevention, early intervention, treatment, and management of chronic conditions [48].”
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- Authors
- Conn, S., & Curtain, S.
- Venue
- Australian Journal of General Practice
- Published
- 2019-10-01
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 677-680
- ISSN
- 2208-794X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2978360338
- Cited by
- 52
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 5.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Australian Journal of General Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Coaching Methods and Impact
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, psychology, and well-being
- Keywords
- health coaching, lifestyle medicine, behavior change, lifestyle-related diseases, chronic disease prevention, primary care, general practitioners
- MeSH terms
- Healthy Lifestyle, Mentoring, Self-Management, Behavior Therapy, Chronic Disease, Humans, Motivation, Patient Education as Topic, Primary Health Care, Risk Reduction Behavior
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