The Effectiveness of Wellness Coaching for Improving Quality of Life

Diet quality and sleep quality among day and night shift nurses

“…Health initiatives should prepare nurses with proper information regarding healthy sleep duration in order to prevent health problems, including weight gain. Previous research has shown that workplace health promotion programmes, wellness coaching and using home-based cognitive-behavioural sleep training have led to improve sleep quality, wellbeing, reduced appetite disturbances, improved quality of life and perceived stress level (Clark et al 2014;Goetzel et al 2014, Lee et al 2014. These studies indicate that sleep training may be a useful tactic for managing shift work and could be implemented at the hospital level to provide nurses the tools they need to improve their sleep patterns (Lee et al 2014).…”

“…Previous research has shown that workplace health promotion programmes, wellness coaching and using home‐based cognitive‐behavioural sleep training have led to improve sleep quality, wellbeing, reduced appetite disturbances, improved quality of life and perceived stress level (Clark et al . ; Goetzel et al . , Lee et al .…”

Health Coaching in Severe COPD After a Hospitalization: A Qualitative Analysis of a Large Randomized Study

“…These cognitive and behavioral constructs are modifiable through intervention and are a necessary part of the coaching intervention above and beyond a positive coaching relationship. 44,45…”

Efficacious Approach to Integrating Health and Wellness Coaching Into the Clinical Care for Weight Management: A Systematic Review and Proposal

“…Obesity and overweight are also associated with decreased longevity [7,14,17,18] . In addition to physiological consequences, obesity and overweight are associated with a decreased quality of life [3,11] , psychosocial adversities [3,11,19,20] , decreased wages [19] and a reduced probability of employment [3,11,16,19] . Obese and overweight individuals commonly experience prejudice, discrimination, social stigma, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and bullying [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] .…”

“…Significant changes in psychological, behavioral, physiological, and social outcomes have resulted following coaching in adults with chronic disease [42] . Coaching also resulted in improvement in quality of life, depressive symptoms, and stress levels with maintenance of these changes at follow-up [20] , and has been used to help physicians facing burnout or dissatisfaction with their practice [39] . Further, coaching has been useful to support behavior changes toward weight loss, by helping patients become motived to start and maintain exercise regimens, eat healthier, and make healthier lifestyle choices [11] .…”