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This rapid review summarises evidence on: what health coaching is; its impact on people's attitudes, behaviour, health status and service utilisation; the groups most likely to benefit from coaching; and how to recruit and train health coaches. It provides an excellent introduction to health coaching for anyone with an interest in introducing it locally.
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This research was designed to determine how the social networks of people with long-term conditions (diabetes and heart disease) are associated with health-related outcomes and changes in outcomes over time.
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Social networks have been seen as playing a potentially important but relatively unspecified role in providing self-management support for long term conditions and this study was motivated by the idea that these provide people with long term conditions access to relationships and resources which can support them in managing their condition(s).
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This article sets out how social media can be an important and cost-effective form of support to people with diabetes in helping them to build their expertise and practice self-management. It argues that health professionals need to embrace this and themselves participate.
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This report provides detailed findings from a feasibility study exploring: how a peer and peer support are currently defined in long term conditions; the kinds of peer support currently available for people with long term conditions; who does and would benefit most from peer support and how well their needs are currently met; gaps and challenges to current delivery and the potential for further developing peer support for long term conditions.
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This paper first describes effective behavioural strategies based on multiple studies and/or meta-analyses in diabetes and then provides information about their use by peers or in peer-based programmes in diabetes.