Coping Skills Training in a Telephone Health Coaching Program for Youth at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Abstract
Introduction
The purpose of this article is to describe components of a health coaching intervention based on coping skills training delivered via telephone. This intervention was provided to urban adolescents at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), reinforcing a school-based curriculum designed to promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent T2DM.
Method
Health coaching via telephone was provided to at-risk urban youth enrolled in a study of an intervention to reduce risk for T2DM. Vignettes are used to describe the use of several coping skills in this high-risk youth population.
Results
A variety of vignettes illustrate how telephone health coaching reinforced lifestyle changes in students by incorporating coping skills training.
Discussion
Given the benefits and the challenges of the telephone health coaching intervention, several suggestions for others who plan to use a similar method are described.
Key Words: Coping skills, health education, vulnerable populations
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Conflicts of interest: None to report.
Funding for this study was provided by grant R01 NR008244 from the National Institute of Nursing Research. This publication also was made possible by CTSA Grant No. UL1 RR024139 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Clinical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR or NIH.
PII: S0891-5245(09)00377-0
doi:10.1016/j.pedhc.2009.12.003
© 2011 National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
