Item 1: Define health education and provide 2 examples.
– Health education teaches people how to stay healthy and avoid getting sick or injured through information. For example, there are workshops where they teach you about eating right, choosing healthy foods, and planning meals. Another example is sexual health education, where they talk about safe sex, contraception, and how to have healthy relationships.
Item 2: Define health communication and provide 2 examples.
– Health communication involves using both spoken and written methods to impact and empower individuals, groups, and communities to opt for healthier options. For example, some methods of effective health communication are understanding different languages, cultures, and settings, while also distributing materials such as social media posts, newspaper articles, and posters.
Item 3: What is the teach-back method and as a health care provider how can you use it with patients?
– The teach-back method is a way for healthcare providers to check if patients understand what they’ve been told. Here’s how you do it: First, explain things clearly to the patient. Then, ask them to explain it back to you in their own words. Listen carefully to what they say. If they don’t get it right, gently correct them and give more information. Keep doing this until they understand. This method serves to help patients remember and follow their treatment plans better, and reinforce good habits.
Item 4: Describe an evidence-based health education program that can be used for the health condition your group was assigned. For this item, you will need to do some research with reputable sources. Be sure to include a reference for the health education program you select.
– I already discussed my first topic in blog #2, so I will be talking about my next topic which is alcoholism. One evidence-based health education program for alcoholism is the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS). BASICS is a motivational interviewing-based intervention designed specifically for college students who engage in risky drinking behaviors during activities (EX: parties). One way this program works is to provide personalized feedback, showing discrepancies between alcohol use and personal goals. This feedback is delivered in a non-judgmental and empathetic manner, to increase the student’s awareness of the potential negative consequences of their drinking behavior.
References:
Carey, K. B., J. Scott-Sheldon, L. A., Carey, M. P., & DeMartini, K. S. (2007). Individual-Level Interventions to Reduce College Student Drinking: A Meta-Analytic Review. Addictive Behaviors, 32(11), 2469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2007.05.004
