Health coaching for weight loss, empowerment, and living your best life. We all see the inherent benefit for not only our patients and ourselves, but one question remains from a clinical perspective:

WHERE IS THE DATA?!

Kevin Brunacini, DNP(s), APRN, just completed a quality improvement study addressing this very question through Frontier Nursing University, titled “Implementation of a Virtual Patient-Centered Weight-Loss Maintenance Behavior Competency Assessment in Adults with Obesity.”

In this podcast we discuss the study, his findings, and implications for helping patients live healthier lives through coaching in mindset, nutrition, and lifestyle modification utilizing a science-based approach as The Diet Doc.

Study Citation:

Brunacini, K. T. (2018). Implementation of a Virtual Patient-Centered Weight-Loss Maintenance Behavior Competency Assessment in Adults with Obesity. (Unpublished doctoral project). Frontier Nursing University, Hyden, KY.

Main Points From this Podcast:

- Core competencies affecting weight loss outcomes

- Evidence-based resources to become a health coach

- Best practices to help patients improve physical health

- Methods to develop a growth-centered mindset in habit development

- Implications from this study affecting health coaching

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