What is it about?
One-on-one behavior change coaching has been shown to effectively help individuals adopt regular health behaviors. We wanted to know if people could be coached in groups to get the same positive results. 84 university employees volunteered to participate in a 3-session group coaching program. Participants became more ready to be physically active, gained confidence to be physically active, made physical fitness gains, and indicated that they felt more competent to be physically active after the group coaching sessions.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that offering group health behavior change coaching can be effective at helping individuals adopt healthy behaviors, can serve more people with coaching, and cost less for organizations compared to one-on-one coaching.
Perspectives
As a certified health and wellness coach who primarily works with individuals one-on-one to help them change their health behaviors, I was excited to show the value of group coaching. Within the groups, I saw the benefit of social support, or members of the group helping each other, in the coaching process. Supporting others to change their health behaviors can be a powerful supportive influence and we hope will become the norm in cultures within organizations.
Janet Bezner
Texas State University
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This page is a summary of: Effect of group health behaviour change coaching on psychosocial constructs associated with physical activity among university employees, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, April 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1612197x.2018.1462232.
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