Health Coaching: Practitioner Perspectives in Improving Health Outcomes

1. Health and Wellness Coaching and Motivational Interviewing are two strategies used to help manage lifestyle-related chronic diseases.

a) True
b) False

2. Patient-driven programs are associated with improved health outcomes and lower health care costs.

a) True
b) False

3. Health Coaching is about partnering with the patient in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.

a) True
b) False

4. Health Coaches encounter patients with many different barriers to change, including:

a) Lack of training or expertise to address behavior change
b) Limited clinic time
c) Competing patient obligations
d) Difficulty gaining the patient’s trust
e) All of the above

5. Setting specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely (SMART) goals is helpful when trying to facilitate behavior change.

a) True
b) False

6. Health coaching promotes behavior change by:

a) Partnering with the patient
b) Helping the patient discover their strengths and beliefs
c) Focusing on what they are doing right
d) All of the Above

7. Health and wellness coaches are experts on human behavior, motivation, and health.

a) True
b) False

8. The following are the top skill(s) used by health coaches:

a) Asking open-ended questions
b) Demonstrating empathy, warmth, acceptance, non-judgmental, curious, non-confrontational demeanor
c) Simple reflections, affirmations and brainstorming
d) Setting specific, patient driven goals (SMART goals)
e) All of the above

9. Health coaching focuses on what the patient is doing right and traditional medicine focuses on the problem and ways to fix it.

a) True
b) False