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Boost Your Therapy Skills with Insights from My Activity Coach Study!

Boost Your Therapy Skills with Insights from My Activity Coach Study!

As a practitioner in the field of special education, continuous improvement of your skills is essential to providing the best possible support to your students. One exciting area of development is the integration of video-coaching into web-based interventions. A recent study titled My Activity Coach – Using video-coaching to assist a web-based computer-tailored physical activity intervention: a randomised controlled trial protocol provides valuable insights that can be applied to enhance your practice.

Study Overview

The study investigates the effectiveness of combining computer-tailored physical activity advice with brief online video-coaching sessions. Participants were divided into three groups: one receiving both tailored advice and video-coaching, one receiving only tailored advice, and a control group. The primary outcomes assessed were engagement, retention, satisfaction, and changes in physical activity levels.

Key Findings

The study found that the combination of tailored advice and video-coaching significantly improved participant engagement and satisfaction compared to tailored advice alone. This approach also led to better retention rates and more substantial changes in physical activity levels.

Implementing These Findings in Your Practice

Here are some practical steps you can take to integrate these findings into your practice:

Encouraging Further Research

While the study provides a strong foundation, further research is needed to explore the long-term benefits of video-coaching and tailored advice in various educational settings. Consider conducting your own small-scale studies or collaborating with researchers to contribute to this growing field.

To read the original research paper, please follow this link: My Activity Coach – Using video-coaching to assist a web-based computer-tailored physical activity intervention: a randomised controlled trial protocol.


Citation: Alley, S., Jennings, C., Plotnikoff, R. C., & Vandelanotte, C. (2014). My Activity Coach – Using video-coaching to assist a web-based computer-tailored physical activity intervention: a randomised controlled trial protocol. BMC Public Health, 14, 738. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-738
Marnee Brick, President, TinyEYE Therapy Services

Author's Note: Marnee Brick, TinyEYE President, and her team collaborate to create our blogs. They share their insights and expertise in the field of Speech-Language Pathology, Online Therapy Services and Academic Research.

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