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Patient Engagement and Coaching Models. Rebecca Durham Project Coordinator, HealthInsight. Incorrect Assumptions . Incorrect Assumptions . Patients want to change behavior Advising optimal health is motivator for change Patients are either motivated to change, or not. Change Our Thinking.
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Patient Engagement and Coaching Models Rebecca Durham Project Coordinator, HealthInsight
Incorrect Assumptions • Patients want to change behavior • Advising optimal health is motivator for change • Patients are either motivated to change, or not
Change Our Thinking From To Patients are unsuccessful at managing their own care Patients are not yet engaged in their own care • Patients are Non-Compliant
Consider… • Chronically ill patients make many daily health decisions • Sometimes make unwise decisions • Don’t fully understand implications of particular health decisions • Lack support to make better choice • 9/10 patients lack skills to manage their health/prevent disease1 1. Advocate for Health Literacy in your organization (n. d.). Quick Guide to Health Literacy. Retrieved from http://HHS.com
How to Not Engage Patients • Tell patients what to do (give advice) • Misjudge sense of importance regarding behavior change • Use scare tactics, argue, blame them for no willpower and self-concern • Overestimate readiness to change and degree of confidence • Take away control, generating resistance
How To Engage Patients • Listen: Don’t jump on first things patients say • Understand behavior change and motivation • Change clinical visits from “to-do” lists to helping patients identify and establish care priorities • Help patients develop a care plan to improve outcomes (Shared Care Plan)
Can We Be Engaged? • 23% adopted new health behaviors (but unsure could maintain if stressed) • Remaining 77%: -- Remain passive recipients (12%) -- Lack basic facts to follow treatment recommendations (29%) -- Have facts, no skills/confidence (36%) Hibbard, J. H., Mahoney, E. R., Stock, R., & Tusler, M. (2007). Do increases in patient activation result in improved self-management behaviors? Health Services Research, 42, 1443-1463.
Polling Question What is the most important determinant to advance patients’ with diabetes healthy behaviors? • Increasing patient education • Spending more time with patients • Developing a shared relationship between patient and provider Norris, S. L., Engelgau, M. M., & Narayan, K. M. V. (2001). Effectiveness of self-management training in Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 24, 561-587
Ideal PCC Approach Tennison, J. (2012)
Education + Self-Management Skills to act on problems Patients ID problems in self-management Improving patient confidence to change Goal is increased self-efficacy to improve outcomes • Information, technical skills • Problems due to poor disease control • Disease-specific knowledge • Goal is behavior compliance to improve outcomes Bodenheimer, T., & Abramowitz, S. (2010). Helping patients help themselves: How to implement self-management support. Oakland, CA: California HealthCare Foundation.
The Facts • 40-80% medical information given forgotten immediately; half retained is incorrect1 • Physicians thought 89% of patients understood medication side effects, only 57% of patients understood2 1. Kessels, R. P. (2003). Patients' memory for medical information. Journal of Social Medicine, 96(5), 219-222. 2.Training to Advance Physicians‘ Communication Skills. (n. d). Retrieved from AHRQ Website.
Medication Adherence? Take 3 tablets by mouth 2 times per day, with food for 14 days, then take 2 tablets 2 times per day with food for 14 days, then take 1 tablet every morning, 30 minutes before meal for 14 days, then take ½ tablet every morning, 30 minutes before meal for 14 days
Teach-Back Method • Method to confirm patients understand their medication/treatment: • “Tell me why you need this medication” • “Tell me how you take this medication” • Teach Back not a test of patients’ knowledge • Is a test of how well weexplainsomething Kessels, R. P. (2003). Patients' memory for medical information. Journal of Social Medicine, 96(5), 219-222.
Health Literacy • The capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Healthy People. (2010). Cited in What is Health Literacy? Retrieved from www.chcs.org • Only 12% of adults have proficient health literacy • Lower literacy = more admissions, ER visits, costs, higher risk of poor health Advocate for Health Literacy in your organization (n.. d.) Quick Guide to Health Literacy. Retrieved from http://HHS.com
Watch Your Words Ask Me 3. Retrieved from www.npsf.org.
What is Coaching? • Managing: Making sure people do what they know how to do • Training: Teaching people to do what they don’t know how to do • Mentoring: Showing how those who are good at doing things do them • Coaching: Helping identify skills and capabilities, and empowering people to use them as best they can
Motivational Interviewing A collaborative, patient-centered form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change Miller, W. R. & Rollnick, S. (2009). Ten things that Motivational Interviewing is not. Behaviouraland Cognitive Psychotherapy, 37, 129- 140.
Motivational Interviewing • Non-judgmental, non-confrontational, non-adversarial • Explore and resolve ambivalence • Help patients envision a better future, and become increasingly motivated to achieve it Miller, W. R. & Rollnick, S. (2009). Ten things that Motivational Interviewing is not.. Behaviouraland Cognitive Psychotherapy, 37, 129- 140.
Four Principles of MI • Express empathy (not pity) - Put yourself in patients’ shoes 2. Develop discrepancy (ambivalence) - Explore how they want their life to be and how it is now 3. Roll with resistance (expect it) 4. Support self-efficacy (empower)
OARS • Open-ended questions • Affirmations • Reflections • Summaries
Care Transitions Coaching Model • Improve transitions of care • Transitions Coaches encourage patients and caregivers to take a more active role in their own self-care • Not doing for, but empowering patients to do for themselves • Involves pre-discharge and then follow-up, in-home visits
Transitions Coaching in Your Practice • A tool everyone can use • Patients engaged in coaching have better outcomes • Effective to avoid downward trends, or keep patients at new “normal” • Program consistently reduced 30-day hospital readmissions and costs, and 180-day hospital readmissions
Discussion Question #1 How will I use patient engagement techniques to improve patient outcomes?
Discussion Question #2 Name two times during an encounter when you might engage a patient using a patient engagement or coaching model