Programs and Research Using Health Coaching

Information and contact details for Australian health coaching programs and research projects using health change protocols.

Documents from Organisations with Health Coaching Programs

• Goulburn Valley Health: Self Management Network. Self Management Network aims to assist clinicians at GV Health to embed self management principles and practices into usual care. An important function of the Network is to support clinicians who attended the Two-day Introduction to Health Coaching workshop to practice the new skills learnt to build their confidence and review current tools to reflect new skills learnt.
  • GV Health Self Management Network: Terms of Reference
  • Presentation delivered at the Australian Health Coaching Network: Embedding Health Coaching into Practice
  • Tips for setting up a Health Coaching network. For more information please contact tracey.forster@gvhealth.org.au

Health Coaching Research Projects

• Excessive weight gain during pregnancy: Piloting a prevention program. Researchers from three Universities (Dr Skouteris and Professor McCabe, Deakin University; Professor Milgrom, University of Melbourne; Dr Herring, Temple University, USA) and practitioners from Health Coaching Australia (Janette Gale, Dr Vanessa Cook and Rebecca McPhee) have joined forces to pilot test a novel intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention in women who are pregnant for the first time; this intervention adopts a Health Coaching methodology to assist women with weight management during pregnancy. It has two components. (1) The first component involves two one-on-one sessions with a Health Coach that a) promote patient adoption of healthy lifestyle behaviors for the purpose of weight management, and b) address mood management and body image issues that commonly arise during pregnancy. (2) The second component involves two educational group sessions (10 women in a group), led by a Health Coach, that augment the one-on-one sessions; the aim is to provide new mothers with additional information related to healthy behaviours and mood, and to support and assist them in initiating, maintaining, and achieving their weight management goals. The program will commence at 18 weeks gestation and continue until 32 weeks gestation. Pregnant women between 12-17 weeks gestation are invited to take part. For further details about this pilot study, please call Dr Helen Skouteris on 03 9251 7699 or email: helens@deakin.edu.au
• A 'real world' implementation trial of a telephone-delivered secondary preventation program for myocardial infarction patients - 'ProActive Heart'. For more information, please contact A/Prof Anna Hawkes - Senior Research Fellow - Cancer Council Queensland, Australia at anna.hawkes@gmail.com. Click here to download the overview pdf or visit the following link to access the full paper: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2261-9-16.pdf
• Randomised controlled trial of a lifestyle intervention for colorectal cancer survivors - 'CanChange'. For more information, please contact A/Prof Anna Hawkes - Senior Research Fellow - Cancer Council Queensland, Australia at anna.hawkes@gmail.com. Click here to download the overview pdf or visit the following link to access the full paper: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2407-9-286.pdf