School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Bridges to Wealth, Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Patient Educ Couns. 2023 Mar;108:107592. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2022.107592. Epub 2022 Dec 9.
To identify the characteristics of an effective health coach and describe how these characteristics can be developed.
A qualitative descriptive design was used to obtain insights from a convenience, homogenous sample of health coaches, social workers, and research staff members collaborating as members of a team providing a health coaching telehealth intervention for lay caregivers. Individual interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis.
The 11 study participants interviewed were predominately married (75 %), female (92 %) and Caucasian (83 %). Ages ranged from 27 to 66 with an average age of 42 years. The sample was highly educated, with five having attained a terminal degree (PhD or DNP). The participants described three themes of characteristics that contributed to the success of health coaches: personal characteristics, professional characteristics, and program characteristics.
These characteristics expand what is known about attributes that contribute to successful health coaching. Most can be trained or used in developing programs and interventions.
Our findings suggest that many of the core skills of an effective health coach can be developed through individual training, program design, and peer support. Innate personal characteristics such as trustworthiness, integrity, and compassion are hard to influence but can be identified in the hiring process.
确定有效的健康教练的特征，并描述如何培养这些特征。
采用定性描述设计，从一个便利的、同质的健康教练、社会工作者和研究人员样本中获得见解，这些人员作为团队的成员共同提供健康教练远程医疗干预措施，为非专业护理人员提供服务。使用主题分析对个人访谈进行分析。
接受采访的 11 名研究参与者主要为已婚（75%）、女性（92%）和白人（83%）。年龄从 27 岁到 66 岁不等，平均年龄为 42 岁。该样本受教育程度较高，其中 5 人拥有博士或护理实践博士学位。参与者描述了促成健康教练成功的三个特征主题：个人特征、专业特征和计划特征。
这些特征扩展了对促成成功健康教练的属性的了解。其中大多数可以通过个人培训、项目设计和同行支持来培养或应用于项目和干预措施中。
我们的研究结果表明，有效的健康教练的许多核心技能可以通过个人培训、项目设计和同伴支持来培养。值得信赖、正直和同情心等内在的个人特征很难影响，但可以在招聘过程中识别。
