Health Coaching Flashcards
What does a health coach do?
Help clients discover, clarify, and align with what they want to achieve
What is OARS?
Open-ended inquiry, affirmations, reflections, summarizing
What is QOL?
Subjective and objective evaluations of the goodness of one’s life.
Subjective evaluations
Reflect people’s perceptions of goodness or quality of their own lives
Objective Evalutations
measures of various aspects of one’s life made by someone other than the individual
What are the dimensions of HRQL?
Physical Functions, Cognitive Functions, Emotional Functions, Social Functions and Health Status
What is the difference between QOL HRQL?
What is the difference between the Biomedical and Biopsychosocial definition of health?
The biomedical definition focuses on physical health, while the psychosocial definition also takes into consideration the state of mental and social-well being.
What are the 3 important reason for HRQL?
- Improvements in HRQL are an important benefit of exercise
- Knowledge of a patients HRQL is important for prescribing exercise
- Important index of treatment effectiveness
Objective Measures in HRQL are…
made by someone other than patient, quantitative in nature
Subjective Measures in HRQL
Usually done through the administration of questionnaires asking patient to rate level of functioning or satisfaction in one or more HRQL domains
SF-36
Most widely used measure of HRQL. Assesses patients’ perceptions of symptoms and the extent to which symptoms impact DTD functioning.
What is the physical self-concept?
How an individual feels about physical abilities and appearance
How does exercise impact cognitive functioning?
has been shown to improve objective indices of cognitive performance - processing and sorting info, planning and initiating behaviours
Exercise & emotional well-being
exercise associated w/ improvements in many aspects of emotional well-being. i.e. decreased depression and anxiety among elderly, MI patients and cancer patients
How does exercise impact social functioning
it may enhance social confidence. Patients who exercise alone experience improvements in social function equal to those in group exercise
Exercise & health status
Exercise can alleviate disease-related symptoms and might provide patients with a strategy for managing or controlling symptoms.
Mechanisms of Change
- a person does not need to experience significant changes in physical health to derive HRQL benefits.
- exercise can help improve HRQL by enhancing self-efficacy to control their health
What are the approaches to define and measure social support?
- Size of social network
- Amount/type of support provided
Size of social network
more available support sources = greater levels of physical exertion during PA
many significant others to exercise with = more likely to exercise at recommended levels
5 Main types of social support
Instrumental, Emotional, Informational, Companionship, and Validation
4 sources/categories of support persons
Family, Important others, Exercise Professionals, and Other Exercise Participants
Group Cohesion
Tendency of group to stick together and remain united in pursuit of objectives.
More cohesive exercise groups foster greater exercise adherence
5 Principles to increase group cohesion
- Create group environment (creates sense of we)
- Create group structure (assign individual and group roles)
- Est. group norms (adopt common goal)
- Individual sacrifices (changing exercise choices, helping the group)
- Interaction and communication (Partner and group activities, post-class social)
