Question

Case Study: You are a community educator for a large health care system. You are preparing a series of two classes on smoking cessation that will be followed by a support group for people who want to quit smoking    .Write objectives for the first class, with one at each of the six levels of the cognitive domain.​

Answer 1

Answer :

Objectives :

• Introduction of smoking cessation.
• Explain impact of smoking on health of individual
• Describe negative effects of smoking
• Enumerate benefits of smoking cessation
• Illustrate nicotine replacement therapy
• Discuss strategies to stop smoking
• Evaluate the effectiveness of teaching class on cessation of smoking .

Six levels of cognitive domain :

Knowledge :

As a health educators first step is to find the target population in community .

Health educator should have adequate knowledge regarding smoking cessation.

Comprehension :

Health educator should provide complete information such as negative effects of smoking , financial burdon , illhealth due to smoking and benefits of cessation of smoking .

She should teach in a various days  or strategies which will be effectively understandable to  people who are needy .

Approaches should be perfect either by primary source or secondary sources.

It should be influence the people to stop smoking .

Application :

People should attept the new behaviour and it should be practiced to stop smoking

Ex : nicotine replacement therapy , stress management , nutrition therapy etc .

Analyais :

Health educator should analyse the topic which influence on target group .

Evaluation :

After completion of class , educator can provide check list wheather class is effective or not

Advice the people to follow up for next sessions

Out come will be beneficial to target population.