Trial reportHealth services research2020
Eight-year post-trial follow-up of health care and long-term care costs of tele-based health coaching.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Development of the Health Coaching Quality Index: A Proposed Method for Evaluating Health Coaching Interventions.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Facilitators and Barriers to the Adoption of Telemedicine During the First Year of COVID-19: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- Evaluating the impact of communicating high polygenic risk for coronary artery disease on the health behaviour of young overweight adults: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Cardiopulmonary Point-of-Care Ultrasonography for Hospitalist Management of Undifferentiated Dyspnea.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Eight-year post-trial follow-up of morbidity and mortality of telephone health coaching.BMC health services research · 2021Trial
- Eight-year post-trial follow-up of health care and long-term care costs of tele-based health coaching.Health services research · 2020Trial
- Use of cost analysis in examinations of health coaching interventions: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Health Coaching and Its Impact in the Remote Management of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Scoping Review of the Literature.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Supporting Sustainable Health Behavior Change: The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2024Article
- Clustering Diagnoses From 58 Million Patient Visits in Finland Between 2015 and 2018.JMIR medical informatics · 2022Article
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the long-term effect of telephone health coaching on health care and long-term care (LTC) costs in type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. DATA SOURCES/STUDY
settingRandomized controlled trial (RCT) data were linked to Finnish national health and social care registries and electronic health records (EHR). Post-trial eight-year economic evaluation was conducted. STUDY
designA total of 1,535 patients (≥45 years) were randomized to the intervention (n = 1034) and control groups (n = 501). The intervention group received monthly telephone health coaching for 12 months. Usual health care and LTC were provided for both groups. PRINCIPAL
findingsIntention-to-treat analysis showed no significant change in total health and long-term care costs (intervention effect €1248 [3 percent relative reduction], CI -6347 to 2217) in the intervention compared to the control group. There were also no significant changes among subgroups of patients with T2D or CAD.
conclusionsHealth coaching had a nonsignificant effect on health care and long-term care costs in the 8-year follow-up among patients with T2D or CAD. More research is needed to study, which patient groups, at which state of the disease trajectory of T2D and cardiovascular disease, would best benefit from health coaching.
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