Health Coaching to Optimize Well-Being among Returning Veterans with Suicide Risk

Abstract

Health coaching is a solution-focused, patient-centered approach that optimizes well-being. This is a mixed-methods single-arm, repeated-measures, feasibility and acceptability pilot trial that examines the use of health coaching among returning veterans with suicide risk. Up to 30 participants with suicide risk (pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, sleep disturbances, and/or substance use disorder) will engage in 8 weekly sessions of health coaching and complete health outcome measures at baseline and weeks 4, 8 and 16. Findings will be used to modify the intervention and develop a larger randomized controlled trial of health coaching in this population. Progress to date: We have enrolled our sample of 28 participants and are currently delivering the intervention and obtaining quantitative health outcome data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1050439

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  • Lauren M Denneson

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  • Oregon Health & Science University

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  • Abstracts
  • Acceptability
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Biomedical Research
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  • Department Of Defense
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  • Medicine
  • Psychology

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