Partnering With @entity497 Individuals With XXXX for Health Behavior Change Using Action Plans: An Innovation in Health Professionals Education and Practice.

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Health care practitioners support or hinder an individual's attempts to self-manage health behavior. Practitioners must understand an individual's health needs and goals to effectively partner for behavior change. @entity14062 ( @entity14062 ) promote efforts toward positive health behavior change. Practitioners need training to provide effective @entity14062 , beginning with their formal education. The purpose of this educational practice project was to integrate an evidence-based intervention ( @entity14062 using action plans) into a nursing curriculum. Three sequential steps included (1) providing foundational @entity14062 education, (2) @entity14062 application with students' personal action plans, and (3) implementing @entity14062 with @entity497 individuals with @entity6 . Students (n = 130) partnered with @entity1 (n = 85), developing short- (n = 240) and long-term (n = 99) action plans during home visits. The average baseline @entity6 Empowerment Scale score measuring @entity1 's perceived psychosocial @entity6 management self-efficacy was 4.3 (1-5 scale, SD = 0.51, n = 83). Most common short-term actions related to physical activity (n = 100, 42%) and healthy eating (n = 61, 25%). Average @entity1 confidence level was 7.7 (SD = 1.9, 0-10 scale). Short-term goal evaluation (n = 209) revealed 66% (n = 137) were met more than 50% of the time. Both @entity1 (99%) and students (99%) expressed satisfaction with home visit and action plan experiences. This teaching-learning experience is replicable and applicable to any professional health care student.
