Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
EduWeight: Weight Management for Adult Patients with Chronic Disease
The University of Melbourne
This course intended to improve your confidence and skills in helping your patients with chronic disease manage their weight. The course covered physiological mechanisms of weight regulation, pragmatic behaviour change techniques, weight stigma, communication approaches, and intervention strategies.
6 weeks, 6 hours per week
Professor Kim Bennell
Director of Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine
The University of Melbourne
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe to your patients on the associations and mechanisms linking overweight with chronic diseases, and the benefits of weight loss
- Explain to your patients on the physiological mechanisms of weight regulation, weight loss and weight re-gain
- Assess a variety of dietary interventions, work with the patient to identify which intervention would suit their needs and direct them to the information they need to get started
- Develop an understanding of weight stigma and examine your own beliefs about weight
- Apply a communication approach for having weight management discussions with patients in a positive, supportive, non-stigmatizing manner
- Apply behaviour change techniques, including motivational interviewing, into your patient interactions to promote behaviour change
Syllabus
- Links between obesity and chronic disease, and the benefits of weight loss
- Overview of weight regulation, overweight and obesity
- Examining weight stigma and personal beliefs about weight
- Communication approaches for addressing weight management
- Interventions for weight management
- Health behaviour change support
Issued on 25th March 2023
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