Application of three different coaching strategies through a virtual coach for people with emotional eating: a vignette study
| Autor: | Aranka Dol, Tatjana van Strien, Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen, Hugo Velthuijsen, Christina Bode |
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| Přispěvatelé: | New Business & ICT, Psychology, Health & Technology |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
050103 clinical psychology
obesity UT-Gold-D lcsh:RC435-571 030309 nutrition & dietetics Population education Coaching Developmental psychology Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience zwaarlijvigheid lcsh:Psychiatry medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Overeating 0303 health sciences education.field_of_study Nutrition and Dietetics personalized coaching business.industry emotional eating 05 social sciences dialectical behavioural therapy Emotional eating emotioneel eten dialectische gedragstherapie medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Distress Eating disorders Vignette Thematic analysis business Psychology Research Article gepersonaliseerde coaching |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Eating Disorders, 9. BioMed Central International Journal of Eating Disorders, 9, 1 Journal of Eating Disorders, 9(1):13. BioMed Central Journal of Eating Disorders International Journal of Eating Disorders, 9 Journal of Eating Disorders, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2050-2974 0276-3478 |
| Popis: | Background Around 13% of the world’s population suffers from obesity. More than 40% of people with obesity display emotional eating behaviour (eating in response to negative emotions or distress). It is an alternate to more effective coping strategies for negative emotions. Our study explored the opportunities for helping adults with emotional overeating using a virtual coach, aiming to identify preferences for tailored coaching strategies applicable in a personal virtual coach environment. Three different coaching strategies were tested: a validating, a focus-on-change, and a dialectical one – the latter being a synthesis of the first two strategies. Methods A qualitative study used vignettes reflecting the two most relevant situations for people with emotional eating: 1. experiencing negative emotions, with ensuing food cravings; and 2. after losing control to emotional eating, with ensuing feelings of low self-esteem. Applied design: 2 situations × 3 coaching strategies. Participants: 71 adult women (Mage 44.4/years, range 19–70, SD = 12.86) with high scores on the DEBQ-emotional eating scale (Memo 3.65, range 1.69–4.92, SD = .69) with mean BMI 30.1 (range 18–46, SD = 6.53). They were recruited via dieticians’ practices, were randomly assigned to the conditions and asked how they would face and react to the presented coaching strategies. Data were transcribed and a thematic analysis was conducted. Results Qualitative results showed that participants valued both the validating coaching strategy and the focus-on-change strategy, but indicated that a combination of validation and focus-on-change provides both mental support and practical advice. Data showed that participants differed in their level of awareness of the role that emotions play in their overeating and the need for emotion-regulation skills. Conclusion The design of the virtual coach should be based on dialectical coaching strategies as preferred by participants with emotional eating behaviour. It should be tailored to the different stages of awareness of their emotions and individual emotion-regulation skills. |
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