Health Promotion Activity for Alcohol Addiction

This assignment focuses on developing a health promotion activity for a mental health patient who is addicted to alcohol. The activity aims to raise awareness about the harmful effects of alcohol consumption and provide support for reducing alcohol intake.

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The definition of health promotion activity is the process of making the people aware to
take a control over their health and improve the conditions of their health. It takes into account
the population as a whole by considering their everyday life inspite of focussing on only the
people who are at the risk of specific diseases. The health promotion activities towards the action
on the particular determinants or the causes of the health (Noble et al. 2015). There are four core
elements which are related to the health promotion activities which includes the prevention of
different diseases, any kind of injury or illness, any kind of health development and development
of parenting skills, providing of support which build up and increases the confidence level of
those who are suffering from health issues (Warburton and Bredin 2016). The other core area is
the development of community capacity building. The purpose of this assignment is develop a
health promotion activity for a mental health patient who is addicted to alcohol.
The case study given is about a Caucasian lady who is 59 years old, originally belonging
from Holland. She has been admitted to the hospital under the act of mental health. She has been
diagnosed with continuous depressive disorder and presently she is under the treatment of doctor.
In the present case scenario, she was brought to the hospital by her husband and her son after
they had noticed that she has undergone marked changes in her behaviour. They told the doctors
that since the last two days has not taken olanzapine. The patient was looking very anxious and
agitated and was continuously expressing expressions of guilt. She used to think herself to be a
very bad person and was obviously going to hell. Though she was not showing any signs of
suicidal thoughts but due to her sudden mood changes this may happen. When the patient use to
drink alcohol a lot she used to think a lot about suicides as her grandfather also committed
suicide but never attempted for a suicide. She was also losing weight may be because of
excessive drinking and not taking proper foods. Even her medical history shows that she dropped

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her medicines in the fear that she will not be able to cope up with the medicines. Even her sexual
and mental abuse was also reported.
The patient was already suffering from mental issues so it is really difficult for her to
understand everything that was told to him. The leaflet is required to produce for the purpose of
making the patient understand about the need to leave the habit of drinking and to take proper
medicines so that she can get cured of the mental diseases from which she is suffering (Afshin et
al. 2016). The colour of the leaflet is green and it has been made by using proper fonts and styles
so that she can understand each and every words properly. Different pictures have also been used
in the leaflet so that the patient find interest in reading the leaflet and also can follow all the
procedures that are written in the leaflet. The leaflet contains in details what needs to be done in
order to leave the consumption of alcohol. The leaflet has been prepared particularly for the
patient, considering her age, lifestyle and the medicines that she is undertaking. The leaflet has
been made colourful considering every conditions of the patient. The patient can be cured only if
she gets proper support from the doctors, physicians and nurses.
In this health promotion assignment, the health promotion activity must be against
excessive drinking of alcohol. The health promotion activity includes different steps. The steps
are managing the planning process, conducting a situational assessment, identifying the goals,
population of interests, outcomes and the objectives of the outcomes, identifying the strategies,
activities, outputs, objectives of the processes and resources, developing of the indicators, review
the programme plan (Blue et al. 2016). The patient is alcohol addicted, so the health promotion
has been prepared for an alcohol addicted person. The leaflet has been prepared in such a way
that the patient finds interest in reading the leaflet. The message that is delivered in the leaflet is
all about how to reduce the alcohol consumption. The leaflet is completely a personalised, which

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involves the ways and the routine that the patient must follow in order to reduce the consumption
of alcohol. The health promotion activity has been made especially for the patient (Langford et
al. 2015).The health promotion activity has been arranged in the hospital in a very confidential
way as this health promotion is a personalised one. The preparation of the health promotion
involve the management of the hospital and the family members of the patient apart from the
only involvement of the patient. The first step of the health promotion activity is to manage the
planning process (Gautam, Bhatta and Aryal 2015). A proper plan must be made which must
involve the stakeholders including the staffs and the members of the hospital in an effective way.
The data required in step should be recorded and a clear decision making process should be
established (Payne et al. 2015). The next step is the conduction of a situational assessment, in
this case the situation of the patient should be assessed properly as this is completely a person
centred health promotion activity. In this step the important matters to be considered are what
conditions can make the conditions of the patients better and what conditions can make the
conditions worse. In the given case, the patient is suffering from mental issues because of
excessive drinking. So policies that involve the best practices of reducing the alcohol
consumption were involved. The next important step is the identification of goal, population of
interest and the objectives of the outcomes. The goal of this health promotion is to make the
patient aware about the consumption of alcohol and to teach her how to reduce the consumption
of alcohol (Pescud et al. 2015). In this case, the targeted population is the woman who is
suffering from mental issues and the causes of the mental issues is the excessive consumption of
alcohol. The expected outcomes are curing of the patient from the mental issues and also leaving
the consumption of alcohol for leading a healthy life. The next step is the identification of
different strategies and activities for doing the promotion of health. The strategies involve health

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education or health communication (Linke and Ussher 2015). In this case both of these strategies
are involved, for providing the health education, no such organizations are involved. Only the
management authorities of the hospital are involved for providing the health education. The
doctors, nurses and the family members are responsible for maintaining a healthy and effective
communication with the patient. The next step is the development of indicators, which involves
for each and every outcomes and process objectives the intended results should be considered.
An appropriate time must be there for observation of the result (Kelder, Hoelscher and Perry
2015). The indicators are used for determining the extent of the outcomes. In this given case, the
patient had to be checked after the period of the treatment is over. This should be done to
compare the health conditions after the treatment and before the treatment. The improvement in
the conditions of health are required to be noted. The next step is the reviewing the plan of the
whole programme (Kwan et al. 2016). The purpose of this step is to clarify the contributions of
each of its components to the objectives, identify the gaps, ensuring where there is adequate
sources or not and ensure the consistency. It has to be measured that the strategies are
contributing to the goals or the objectives (Leasure et al. 2015). The ultimate message of this
education is to curb the consumption of alcohol. There are several ways to curb or reduce the
consumption of alcohol. The reduction in the consumption of alcohol can be done by following
several steps. Firstly, the reasons for cutting down drinking must be noted. In this case the main
reason of cutting down alcohol is mental illness. So the health promotion team must note it down
for her (Michael et al. 2015). Setting a drinking goal and a dairy must be maintained to keep the
records of drinking. The patient should never keep alcohol in his house. The patient must keep
herself busy in other works or activities so that she can forget the practice of drinking.

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This assignment is fully about the person centred health promotion about a patient
suffering from mental issues, the leading cause of the mental issues is the consumption of
alcohol. Because of the excessive consumption of alcohol the person was avoiding her regular
medicines. She was becoming weak day by day for not taking proper foods and medicines, even
she was showing tendencies of attempting suicides. She thus needs an urgent health promotion,
otherwise her health conditions would deteriorate. A patient who is already suffering from
mental diseases will not understand any thin anything told to her, for this the leaflet was made so
that it becomes easier for the patient to understand what he needs to do for reducing the
consumption of alcohol and to lead a healthy life like other people.

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