英文摘要 |
This article applied the transtheoretical model (TTM) to assist a sixty-seven-year-old patient with type IIdiabetes to implementself-management in outpatient department. The process of health care behavior changes took place from June 7, 0 to March , 0 while the author was adopting a “holistic health care"assessment framework. At the beginning, the patient experienced the problems of potential risk from poor control of blood sugar, did not develop self-monitoring behavior of blood sugar, etc. The analyzed case was in “preparation period" of behavior change process.During the intervention, the author followed the principle of 'patient-centered care' to assist the case, by providing the change strategies that meet the cognitive and behavioral needs of the case based on the patient´s basic features, the characteristics of social support, the stage of behavior changes, and made the most of the teachable moment. Perception and strategies for behavior changes were emphasized: knowledge about the disease control, importance of blood sugar self-monitoring, expansion of social support resources. The paperalso discussed how to use long-distance telecommunication technology to help the case to cultivate healthy eating behaviors and blood sugar self-monitoring plan. The TTM successfully assisted the elderly case of type II diabetes from outpatient department to reach the goal of behavior changes in self-management. |