At CMSC 2025, Cassandra Moore, MPH, CPH, associate vice president of strategy and innovation at the National MS Society, discussed the impact of health and wellness coaching in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Leading expert Cassandra Moore, MPH, CPH, presented on the integration of health and wellness coaching into MS care at the 2025 Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC) Annual Meeting, held May 28-31, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona.3 Following the presentation, Moore, associate vice president of strategy and innovation at the National MS Society, spoke with NeurologyLive® to further discuss how coaching can improve self-efficacy, physical and mental health, and quality of life in patients with MS.She was diagnosed over 20 years ago, and she said that she had been living in a stagnant state, and maybe coaching could be beneficial for her as well to get her moving and setting goals. We had a pretty diverse demographic pool. We had people who weren’t experiencing disability at all and people who had experienced disability in life-changing ways, some people with progressive MS and some who had been diagnosed with relapsing-remitting.Health coaching could be an effective patient education method for the management of chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS).According to a recently published study, findings revealed that health coaching was particularly effective in changing the lifestyle behavior of patients with chronic diseases and in improving their self-efficacy, physical as well as mental health status. These results suggested that health coaching may help clinicians engage patients in behavior change and enhance adherence to self-care routines outside the clinical setting.1
