Voices from the Heart of the Project: Peer Health Coaches (BETTER Women 3/5)

Meet the peer health coaches - the volunteers at the heart of the BETTER Women project. Through candid conversations, we hear from women who underwent extensive training in motivational interviewing and health coaching to support others on their wellness journeys. From international physicians to cancer survivors to newcomers seeking community connection, these coaches share what drew them to the program, how the training changed their own relationships, and the profound impact of walking alongside someone through health behaviour change. This is healthcare powered by human connection.

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More episodes in this series:

• Trailer
• Episode 1: Going “Upstream” to Prevent Chronic Disease
• Episode 2: The Science behind Peer Health Support

Related research:

• Assessing the effectiveness of “BETTER Women”, a community-based, primary care-linked peer health coaching programme for chronic disease prevention: protocol for a pragmatic, wait-list controlled, type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial
• Improving chronic disease prevention and screening in primary care: results of the BETTER pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial.
• Results from the BETTER WISE trial: a pragmatic cluster two arm parallel randomized controlled trial for primary prevention and screening in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Links:

• The BETTER Women project
• Canadian Cancer Society
• Women's College Hospital