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Digital health coaching is an interventional process that uses digital technologies, typically in conjunction with human coaching, to help patients identify and work toward behavior change goals that promote health and help manage and prevent disease.
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Digital health coaching grew out of the tradition of health and wellness coaching. Like traditional, face-to-face health coaching, digital health coaching is an interventional process that assists patients in changing health behaviors to achieve better health outcomes. This patient-centered interventional process that uses guided self-discovery to help patients draw from their values to identify health behavior change goals and then drives the change process by assisting patients with learning (e.g., content education; behavior change...
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Sargent, E., Tomasino, K.N. (2017). Digital Health Coaching. In: Gellman, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_101960-1
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