A Pilot Program Measuring Effectiveness of Health Coaching Interventions

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Nutritional and Metabolic Disease; Sedentary Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Coaching and health information intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04297189
• Lead Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization

Brief Summary

Women will participate in a workshop within a group and individual meetings. the workshop will include providing information regarding guidelines for healthy eating, engaging in physical activity, personal training tools to build self-efficacy and to encourage implementing a healthy life style.

Detailed Description

Participants are interviewed for eligibility and if appropriate sign consent and undergo measurements of weight, height and blood pressure.

At the first meeting there is a pre-study questionnaires and initial coaching session

Eight group meetings will take place and will include:

up-to-date knowledge on nutrition (by a dietitian), exercise (by a physiotherapist) and coping skills for stress (by a psychologist).

Additionally the meetings will also include coaching tools which the participants will practice during the session. The multidisciplinary team has been trained in coaching tools to evaluate in group settings.

In the last meeting, participants will be asked to fill out post study questionnaires measurements will be taken (weight and blood pressure).

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-05-01
• Study First Submitted: 2019-10-27
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-03-03
• Study First Posted: 2020-03-05
• Status Verified: 2023-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-04-23
• Last Update Posted: 2023-04-25
• Primary Completion: 2024-10-31
• Study Completion: 2025-10-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• over age 18
• Women who agree to fill out questionnaires
• Women who agree to attend sessions (attending 80% of sessions)
• Women who are fluent in Hebrew

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnancy
• Women with significant untreated psychiatric diagnosis
• Insulin-dependent diabetes
• End-stage renal disease
• Unstable Angina
• Women who are not fluent in Hebrew
• Women currently treated by multidisciplinary staff (eg, heart failure, cardio rehabilitation)
• Women who have been enrolled in other programs of the center at the discretion of the staff will not be included in the study
• Women who do not want to make a healthy lifestyle change
• Failure to reach 75% of sessions during the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Coaching Intervention	Coaching and health information intervention	Single arm pilot study of coaching intervention

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Behavioral change	1 year	achieved 80% of the goal they set in first meeting or achieved the goal 80% of the time
self efficacy	1 year	Change in (improved) self efficacy as assessed by Tschannen-Moran Moore score

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
weight	1 year	kg
physical activity	1 year	increase in self-report of exercise in minutes per week
nutrition	1 year	adaptation of the Israeli Ministry of Health Diet Scale
experiential avoidance	1 year	Reduction on experiential avoidance as measured on the Brief Experiential Avoidance Scale

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hadassah Medical Organization; 🇮🇱 Jerusalem, Israel