- Title
- A pharmacist health coaching trial evaluating behavioural changes in participants with poorly controlled hypertension
- Creator
- Singh, Harjit; Kennedy, Gerard; Stupans, Ieva
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/190045
- Identifier
- vital:17543
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-021-01385-0
- Identifier
- ISSN:1471-2296 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Background: To investigate whether pharmacist health coaching improves progression through the stages of change (SOC) for three modifiable health behaviours; diet, exercise, and medication management in participants with poorly controlled hypertension. Methods: In this four-month controlled group study two community-based pharmacists provided three health coaching sessions to 20 participants with poorly controlled hypertension at monthly intervals. Changes in participants’ stages of change with respect to the modifiable health behaviours; diet, exercise, and medication management were assessed. To confirm the behaviour change outcomes, SOC were also assessed in a control group over the same period. Results: Statistically significant changes in the modifiable health behaviours- medication management (d = 0.19; p = 0.03) and exercise (d = 0.85; p = 0.01) were apparent in participants who received health coaching and were evident through positive changes in the SOC charts. The participants in the control group did not experience significant changes with respect to the SOC. This was parallel to a decrease in mean systolic blood pressure from session one to session four by 7.53 mmHg (p < 0.05, d =
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd
- Relation
- BMC Family Practice Vol. 22, no. 1 (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021, The Author(s)
- Subject
- 4203 Health services and systems; 4206 Public health; Behaviour change; Community pharmacist; Health coaching; Hypertension; Medication adherence; Stages of change
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