IMPLEMENTING THE COACH RELATIONSHIP MODEL - HEALTH PROMOTION FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

Program designers and nurses developed and implemented the COACH Relat ionship Model to help low-income mothers change health-related behavio rs as part of a clinical trial conducted from 1990 to 1994 of the impa ct of nurse home visitation. By first orienting the program nurses to the theoretical underpinnings (caring, ecological, role supplementatio n, and self-efficacy theories) and then involving them in developing p rogram materials to translate the theoretical and philosophical concep ts into nursing interventions, the essential features of the relations hip model were retained through the implementation process.