ECI-4: Culturally-Competent Heart Health Coaching Improves Lipids in South Asians
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A culturally specific health coaching program targeting cardiovascular disease risk in South Asians: rationale, design, and baseline data.
Health coaching is an effective strategy for improving cardiovascular disease risk factors. Coaching interventions have primarily been studied in Caucasians, and the effectiveness in other ethnic groups is not known. Further, adaptation of coaching to include culturally specific components has not been studied. Our aim is to describe a culturally specific coaching program targeted at reducing c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine & Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1539-4182,1554-6179
DOI: 10.3121/cmr.2013.1176.eci-4