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Online coaching may be equally effective as in-person methods.
Practitioners can consider online health coaching as a viable alternative to in-person coaching.
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The results support the use of health coaching for promoting behavior change and suggest that online coaching may be equally effective as in-person methods.
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The study design involved pre-post evaluations and statistical analyses.
Source
Comparison of In-Person and Online Motivational Interviewing–Based Health Coaching
Kathryn Bus et al. · Health Promotion Practice · 2017
DOI 10.1177/1524839917746634
other · n=92Cited 33×
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