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Can life coaching improve health outcomes? – A systematic review of intervention studies

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, October 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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1 news outlet
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14 tweeters
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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57 Dimensions

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204 Mendeley
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Title
Can life coaching improve health outcomes? – A systematic review of intervention studies
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, October 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-428
Pubmed ID
24148189
Authors

Jette Ammentorp, Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt, Flemming Angel, Martin Ehrensvärd, Ebbe B Carlsen, Poul-Erik Kofoed

Abstract

In recent years, coaching has received special attention as a method to improve healthy lifestyle behaviours. The fact that coaching has found its way into healthcare and may provide new ways of engaging the patients and making them accountable for their health, justifies the need for an overview of the evidence regarding coaching interventions used in patient care, the effect of the interventions, and the quality of the studies published. However, in order to provide a clear definition of the coaching interventions selected for this review, we have found it necessary to distinguish between health coaching and life coaching. In this review, we will only focus on the latter method and on that basis assess the health related outcomes of life coaching.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 198 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 32 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 12%
Researcher 22 11%
Student > Bachelor 17 8%
Student > Postgraduate 14 7%
Other 43 21%
Unknown 52 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 47 23%
Psychology 28 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 23 11%
Social Sciences 20 10%
Unspecified 6 3%
Other 23 11%
Unknown 57 28%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 May 2023.
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#1,477,671
of 23,738,567 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#483
of 7,934 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,210
of 213,781 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#10
of 135 outputs
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