Health Coaching in Faith-Based Community Diabetes Education

Health Coaching in Faith-Based Community Diabetes Education

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Health Coaching in Faith-Based Community Diabetes Education

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A significant health burden exists related to type 2 diabetes. Evidence-based solutions through research are needed to improve diabetes outcomes. Faith community diabetes education can be utilized to provide the knowledge needed to manage the disease.

The purpose of the current study was to determine if a faith-based community diabetes education program including health coaching can increase self-efficacy in people with type 2 diabetes.

This pilot study used a pretest/posttest format for data collection. After providing diabetes education for all participants, half of the group received health coaching and the other half had no further intervention. A survey consisting of two evidence-based tools, the Short Diabetes Knowledge Instrument and the Diabetes Self Efficacy Scale, along with demographic data, was utilized for the pretest. Data analysis included t-tests and Pearson correlation.

Although there was no significant difference between the intervention and control groups, the results showed diabetes knowledge levels and self-efficacy were significantly improved from pretest to posttest in all participants through t-test analysis (n 16, t −2.45, p 0.027; n 16, t −2.44, p 0.028). Within the intervention group, there was also improved diabetes knowledge from pretest to posttest (n 8, t −2.38, p 0.05). A positive correlation was found between diabetes knowledge on the pretest and the posttest self-efficacy (r 0.67, t 0.004).[Order Now]

From Meyer JL, Holland BE: Health coaching in faith-based community diabetes education. IJFCN 2(1):2016:14–20. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ijfcn/vol2/iss1/3/

Marilyn Michaels is a former home care and hospice nurse who works as an FCN coordinator for St. Luke’s Hospital, which is a 400-bed medical center serving a Midwestern rural population.

Her position was created to assist community churches in developing and maintaining parish nurse programs. She supervises 12 registered nurses employed by the hospital, who provide nursing through a contract to area congregations until the churches’ budgets can support a nurse’s salary. She also works with churches that have a volunteer model of health care ministry.

She coordinates educational programs, including a 34-hour preparation program for beginning FCNs, an advanced program for FCN coordinators in individual churches, and monthly educational programs offered through an FCN support group.

Marilyn developed the support group and facilitates communication among the 200 nurses and 100 church communities that St. Luke’s Hospital serves. She also assists the many faith community programs by connecting them with other services that the hospital and community agencies provide (e.g., screening, support groups, and speakers). The program at St. Luke’s Hospital is self-supporting through grants and educational programs.

Sandra Mills began her FCN practice as a volunteer when her parish priest recruited her to help establish a cancer support group and coordinate classes for caregivers.[Order Now]

Within 6 months, her church’s social concerns committee established a paid position on their ministry team and employed her as a full-time, paid staff member. After completing a faith community nursing program through a local university, she began to develop a health ministry in her church.

She describes her days as full and rewarding. Each day, she visits ill or homebound parish members and provides support through prayer, education, and listening. She is challenged to locate and provide references to community resources, provide health education to church groups (e.g., mothers’ day out and the over-55 group), and coordinate the efforts of other volunteers in the church.

She is practicing holistic nursing for the first time in her 15 years of practice. She has found that the church, as a healing community, allows her to focus on the body–mind–spirit connection she believes is necessary to improve the health of congregation members.[Order Now]

Health Coaching in Faith-Based Community Diabetes Education

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