The Importance of Understanding the Learning Styles of Individuals Participating In a Health Promotion

Understanding the learning styles of individuals participating in a health promotion program enables healthcare providers to utilize approaches that these individuals will easily understand. This will ensure maximal retention of health information conveyed during these campaigns. Individuals within communities will ultimately be able to make informed decisions on their health since they are able to understand and retain the provision of the program. As a result, they can eventually change their behavior toward the provisions of the health promotion program.

Accommodation of Different Learning Styles during a Health Promotion Program

To accommodate different learning styles during a health promotion program, health educators must be ready to first understand and recognize the learning style applicable to a majority of the community members. The program should employ a multi-modal approach that utilizes multiple learning styles in conveying a similar message. They should also allocate more time for these programs, engaging communities in the process to better understand them and ensure they understand the provisions of the program (Bukhari & Zafar, 2019). These measures will ensure that most community members retain the health information these promotional campaigns convey.

Conclusion

The VARK analysis gives a framework for understating the learning styles that various learners use. Kinesthetic, visual, auditory, and reading/writing styles have been elucidated. Understanding these learning styles is important, especially to educators, as they enable modification of the learning styles to ensure better understanding and retention. Knowledge of learning styles is valuable to health educators as they inform on approaches to be utilized during health promotional campaigns.

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