Question

Develop a comprehensive patient education plan for a health behavior or disease of your choice. The plan should be in a format for your entire patient population. Examples of behaviors or diseases might include but are not limited to smoking, heart disease, high blood pressure. Examples of patient education tools might include but are not limited to brochures, Powerpoint presentation, etc. You will choose one topic (health behavior/disease) and use as many education types as you choose. The goal is to provide excellent patient education and have compliance from your audience. Consider how the audience will understand your educational materials and if they will be able to implement the change presented to them.

Answer 1

Patient education plan for healthy behavior

This Programs to influence health behavior, including health promotion and education programs and interventions, Health behavior education presents information to target patient on particular health topics, including the health benefits/threats they face, and provides tools to build capacity and support behavior change in an appropriate setting. Health behavior  are many; examples include smoking, substance use, diet, physical activity, sleep, risky sexual activities, health  care seeking behavior  and adherence to prescribed medical treatments.

The main health risk behaviors are: alcohol and other drug use, behaviors  that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence (including suicide), tobacco use, unhealthy dietary behavior , physical inactivity and sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease

health behaviour education activities should include:

• Lectures
• Courses
• Seminars
• Webinars
• Workshops
• Classes

Characteristics of health behavioural education strategies include:

• Participation of the patient
• Completion of a patient needs assessment to identify resources, priorities, and needs.
• Planned learning activities that increase participants' knowledge and skills.
• Implementation of programs with integrated, well-planned curricula and materials that take place in a setting convenient for patients .
• Presentation of information with audiovisual and computer based supports such as slides and projectors, videos, books, CDs, posters, pictures, websites, or software programs.
• Ensuring proficiency of program staff, through training, to maintain fidelity to the program model.

  Characteristics of health behavioural education programs

• Teaching functional health information (essential knowledge).
• Shaping personal values and beliefs that support healthy behaviors.
• Shaping group norms that value a healthy lifestyle.