OBJECTIVE The goal of the Million Hearts initiative is to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. Maryland was one state in the Association of State and Territorial Health Official's Million Hearts State Learning Collaborative. Washington County, Maryland formed a collaboration between the County Health Department, Meritus Health System, and the Meritus Health Parish Nurse Coordi...

"Virtual Coach" refers to a coaching program or device aiming to guide users through tasks for the purpose of prompting positive behavior or assisting with learning new skills. This article reviews virtual coach interventions with the purpose of guiding rehabilitation professionals to comprehend more effectively the essential components of such interventions, the underlying technologies and the...

it is dawn clear that empowered employees in public sector perform a critical role in their organizational service quality. by the same token, currently competitive advantages stem from employees’ high self-confidence and their commitment toward the goals rather than application of high technologies. this study summarizes twenty influencing factors on employees empowerment including information...

New wearable technologies such as health watches and smartphones provide rich data and give the opportunity to learn about the user’s preference, traits, states and context. Our research aim is to uncover principles of effective coaching and to deliver personalized e-coaching applications in the domain of healthy lifestyle, by using both psychological theory and data science techniques. We beli...

This article presents current empirical findings on a virtual coaching programme combining telephone coaching with an internet-based coaching programme. Within this study, 14 clients received three coaching sessions with a professional coach. Data was collected through interviews and by questionnaire. Findings indicate that this particular coaching format delivers positive results. Furthermore,...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine whether exercise training with coaching is more effective than exercise training alone in reducing dyspnea and the anxiety and distress associated with it and improving exercise performance, self-efficacy for walking, and dyspnea with activities of daily living. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial of 51 dyspnea-limited patients with COPD assigned to monitored (n = 27...

The present study was designed to examine whether coaching affect predictive validity and fairness of scholastic aptitude tests. Two randomly allocated groups, coached and uncoached, were compared, and the results revealed that although coaching enhanced scores of the Israeli Psychometric Entrance Test by about 25% of a standard deviation, it did not affect predictive validity and did not creat...

Homelessness remains a prevalent issue, and estimates of the number people without adequate shelter in UK suggest that issue is growing. This research draws on literature cognitive impact poverty, stigma, self-esteem to show how confidence improved by coaching programmes with those at risk homelessness. The paper based empirical into one such programme which offers one-to-one guidance interlink...