Health coaching is a patient-centered intervention process, which had conducted many years in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and made many positive outcomes. This article reviews the concept of health coaching, specific implementation measures, application effects, existing deficiencies and inspiration in patients with COPD, with a view to providing reference for the further development of health coach technology in patients with COPD.

Ego-depletion is a phenomenon in which an individual's cognitive, emotional and behavioral control ability or willingness declines after long-term self-control. Patients with chronic diseases need to change their lifestyles for a long time, understand and master the knowledge of the disease, and they are prone to self-depletion after diagnosis. This paper summarized the research progress of ego-depletion in patients with chronic diseases through the concept of ego-depletion, subjective measurement tools, and the current research status of ego-depletion in patients with chronic diseases, and provided inspiration for future research directions, with a view to providing ideas for further research on ego-depletion in patients with chronic diseases.