Community Health: Diabetes Teaching Plan and Evaluation

This report presents a community health teaching plan aimed at educating and assisting diabetic individuals. It begins by identifying diabetes as a significant health concern in the USA, supported by epidemiological data highlighting the prevalence of the disease. The report then outlines a nursing diagnosis, emphasizing the importance of early detection and management. It addresses the community's readiness for learning and proposes the social learning theory as a suitable framework for the teaching plan, emphasizing the role of experience and assimilation. The goal is to reduce diabetes prevalence and related deaths through awareness and lifestyle changes, aligning with HP2020 objectives and Alma Ata’s Health for All Global Initiatives. The plan incorporates a buddy system to promote peer support and includes planned evaluations to assess understanding, weight, and glucose levels. It also identifies potential barriers, such as emotional reluctance, and suggests therapeutic communication strategies. The report concludes with a list of references to support the proposed plan.

Community Health
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Identification of Focus for Community Teaching
• The chosen focused community are diabetic people who
are prone to many metabolic disorders
• This focused community forms the most significant
community in the USA
• It Can be controlled with the help of awareness and
changes in lifestyle
• The awareness through the teaching plan should be raised
to persuade people for living healthy life

Epidemiological Rationale for Topic
• This focused community has been selected as more than
100 million people in the USA are diabetic people which is
about 9.4% of the population
• 30.3 million people have diabetes in 2015 in the USA
• 84.1 million people have three diabetes conditions that can
lead to the type 2 state if it is no treated in 5 years

Nursing Diagnosis
Diabetes could be diagnosed through
a simple blood test and caused when
the pancreas fails to generate
sufficient insulin
Type 1 and Type 2 are two types of
diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune
disorder
In type 1 the body attacks pancreases,
which do not allows to produce insulin

Readiness for Learning
• Very few people are diagnosed with
diabetes and take action to cure it
• The community does not identify
diabetes and health problem and
continues to ignore the concerns
• The differences between the
community prevents community
programs to offer uniform
understanding with awareness

Learning Theory to Be Utilized
• Social learning theory is a suitable
learning theory for the health
promotion programs
• This theory is ideal for both children
and adults
• This theory reflects that all learning
arises from experiences and
assimilation

Goal
• The goal is to reduce the people who have diabetes and
also reduce the deaths caused by diabetes
• The awareness program with a focus to make aware and
help the diabetic people
• The goal will be to control the blood glucose level via
dietary along with life changes and medication

HP2020 Objective Relate to Alma Ata’s Health for All
Global Initiatives
• Alma Ata’s Health for All Global Initiatives has been
reinstated by the WHO
• Its initiative for diabetes is well aligned with Alma Ata’s
programs
• It aims to assess the impact of diabetes on national and
community health and use the information to educate
people about the severances of the disease

Develop Behavioral Objectives
Behavioral Objective
and Domain
Content
(be specific)
Strategies/Methods
(label and describe)
1. People will be able to identify
food items with less and high
glucose content.
1. Food items that are artificially
sweetened, bread, pasta and fats.
1. Posters and starch test will be
conducted in front of the audience to
convince them about the constituents
of their food.
2. People will be able to
understand what happens in
diabetic condition and the
importance of insulin for body
metabolism.
2. The digestive and hormonal
system will be explained to
understand body homeostasis levels.
2. A presentation and a video will be
used

Continued…
Creativity
• The teaching plan would
include a buddy system
• In this plan partners would
be made from group
• They will review each
other’s diet and lifestyle
over a period of two weeks
Planned Evaluation of
Objectives
1. Assessing the
understanding and
awareness level
2. Measuring weight and
glucose levels among a
community

Evaluation
Planned Evaluation of
Goal
• The goal is a long term goal
and will be reviewed after
one year
• The evaluation will survey
the diabetic people and
help them to control their
glucose levels
Planned Evaluation of
Lesson and Teacher
• Assessment of teacher will
be performed by the
learners
• Their lessons will be
analyzed with the help of
short feedback

Barriers and Communication
Barriers
• Emotional reluctance to
learn and make behavioral
changes is one of the
barrier
• It could be traced back to
the health beliefs and
behaviors
Therapeutic
Communication
• It involves the method of
communication with the
patient to provide
emotional support
• A video of case studies and
a presentation will be
shown to give a humane
touch in the teaching plan

References
• Healthy people, (2019), Diabetes, Retrieved from
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic
/diabetes/objectives
• Sharp, L. K., Fisher, E. B., & Gerber, B. S. (2015).
Background and rationale for the Society of Behavioral
Medicine's position statement: expand United States health
plan coverage for diabetes self-management education and
support. Translational behavioral medicine, 5(3), 354-356.