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 of a behavioral change? How would different learning styles be accommodates in health promotion?

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 of a behavioral change? How would different learning styles be accommodates in health promotion?

It is paramount to understand the learning styles of individuals participating in health
promotion in achieving desired outcomes since it influences the ability to entrench a behavior
change among the individual. In this case, the educator or health promotion official is able to
utilize effective teaching strategies that are appropriate to the literacy level of the learner and
individual preferences (Cuevas & Dawson, 2018, p 46). The understanding of learner’s style in
health promotion is useful since style of learning determines the ability of the person to take
action towards behavior change. The style influence the degree of likelihood in participating in a
team during health promotion and engage in role playing which assists in behavior change during
health promotion (Gilbert & Kim, 2018, p 62). In addition, the learning style affects the ability to

remember past experiences that might have led to negative health outcomes and initiate action
towards behavioral change (Asiry, 2016, p 14). In this case, the style should cater for the patient
needs such as language proficiency and disability.
The learning style ultimately affects the possibility of behavior change since each
individual has a preferred way of receiving and synthesizing information. Likewise, the distinct
learning style affects how an individual relates with others such as family and friends and this
impact on his or her ability to engage in health promotion activities (Asiry, 2016, p 16). The
learning style determines the ability to improve personal skills of patient and knowledge during
health promotion (Gilbert & Kim, 2018, p 63). The learning style can ultimately attain desired
behavior change if learning styles are aligned with unique patient needs. For instance, the visual
patients should be taught through use of graphs and maps depicting the severity of the disease
(Cuevas & Dawson, 2018, p 45).
The different learning styles can be accommodated in health promotion through use of
different instructional strategies that cater for the different learning outcomes. For instance, it is
possible to use lecturers in order to provide vocal or audio information that aims at creating
disease awareness such as the signs and symptoms of the current Covid- 19 pandemic. The
combination should address the expected health promotion outcomes. For instance, the use of
simulations can be utilized to depict the nature of disease spread across the country while high
literate patients can be able to utilize reading of existing health promotion materials to gain
knowledge of a particular disease (Gilbert & Kim, 2018, p 64).