1. Evaluating local health coaching initiatives: what are your options for measuring impact?
Dr Linda Miller, Institute of Employment Studies

2. Evaluating local health coaching initiatives: what are your options for measuring impact?
Dr Linda Miller

3. Overview of the session
Think in broad terms about
how you expect people to react/change/improve in response to clinician’s input in your specialism
what sorts of measures are (or could be) used to demonstrate those changes
measured by whom, over what sort of timescale
what else is needed to demonstrate ‘added value’ of health coaching
What’s feasible in a non-ideal world

4. What are the options when considering evaluation?
RCT?
Control or comparison group?
Other? .

5. Your patients, your clinical setting
How do you want your patients to change?
How do you help with that?
What’s the sequence of changes you expect to take place?
Over what sort of timescale?

6. Assessing your impact on your patients
What would you expect to see that was different if you were having any impact on that person’s health or behaviour?
What sorts of things would (could) you measure to prove to yourself that you were having an impact?

7. Anything else you might measure?
Number of appointments required?
Fewer appointments missed?
(and if above) increase in number of patients seen eg in clinic per quarter?
Anything else?

8. Assessing the added value of health coaching
What is needed to demonstrate the added value of any initiative?
Potential options
comparison (control) group or
change in improvement gradient (eg faster progress) or step change
larger proportion of patients

9. What are your options for demonstrating the value of your health coaching skills?
Opportunity?
Measures?
Data availability?
Comparisons?
What are you able to do in your particular setting?