Question

1. Discuss why understanding the learning styles of individuals participating in health promotion is important to achieving the desired outcome. How do learning styles ultimately affect the possibility for a behavioral change? How would different learning styles be accommodated in health promotion?

Answer 1

Ans) Learning lifestyle:

- increases your self-confidence.
- improves your self-image.
- teaches you how to use your brain best.
- gives insight into your strengths, weaknesses, and habits.
- enables you to enjoy any learning process.
- inspires greater curiosity and motivation for lifelong learning.

If the information is adapted to their learning style, they will quickly retain and understand it. Lack of understanding means that they will ultimately not change their behaviour. Therefore learning styles affect behaviour change to a large extent as they dictate the manner in which information is understood.

• To accomodate, different learning lifestyle in promotion:

- Engage the employee in conversation about the working condition.
- Question employees about the material.
- Ask for oral summaries.
- Have them tape lectures and review for continuous education.
- Have them tape themselves reviewing material and listen to it together.