ASGE Annual Postgraduate Course: Clinical Challenges and Real-Time Decision Making in GI Endoscopy (Live and Virtual) | May 2023-Expanding Options for Lifestyle Coaching

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In this video, Dr. Robert Kushner, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University, discusses the use of telehealth, smart devices, and apps in lifestyle coaching for obesity management. He emphasizes the importance of healthy interactions between healthcare providers and patients. Dr. Kushner highlights the effectiveness of digital health interventions, such as eHealth (email, internet, social media, and smartphone apps), mobile health (mobile devices), and telehealth (telephone coaching and videoconferencing). He mentions two studies that show the effectiveness of behavior change techniques like goals and planning, feedback and monitoring, social support, and shaping knowledge in changing nutrition behavior. Dr. Kushner then goes on to discuss various self-monitoring apps like MyFitnessPal, LoseIt, and MyPlate, commercial programs such as Weight Watchers and NOOM, and comprehensive disease management programs like VitaHealth, AmadaHealth, Livongo, and Virgin Pulse. He presents data on the success rates of these programs and highlights the importance of self-monitoring and data analysis for behavior change. Dr. Kushner concludes by recommending mHealth as a reasonable treatment option for supporting lifestyle weight management.

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Robert Kushner, MD

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telehealth

smart devices

apps

lifestyle coaching

obesity management