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Can life coaching improve health outcomes? – A systematic review of intervention studies

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, October 2013
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Title
Can life coaching improve health outcomes? – A systematic review of intervention studies
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, October 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-428
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Authors

Jette Ammentorp, Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt, Flemming Angel, Martin Ehrensvärd, Ebbe B Carlsen, Poul-Erik Kofoed

Abstract

In recent years, coaching has received special attention as a method to improve healthy lifestyle behaviours. The fact that coaching has found its way into healthcare and may provide new ways of engaging the patients and making them accountable for their health, justifies the need for an overview of the evidence regarding coaching interventions used in patient care, the effect of the interventions, and the quality of the studies published. However, in order to provide a clear definition of the coaching interventions selected for this review, we have found it necessary to distinguish between health coaching and life coaching. In this review, we will only focus on the latter method and on that basis assess the health related outcomes of life coaching.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 201 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 12%
Researcher 22 11%
Student > Bachelor 18 9%
Student > Postgraduate 14 7%
Other 38 18%
Unknown 59 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 48 23%
Psychology 28 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 23 11%
Social Sciences 20 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 2%
Other 19 9%
Unknown 64 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 August 2023.
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#1,474,675
of 24,221,802 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#476
of 8,156 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,883
of 217,017 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#10
of 136 outputs
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