B9429 - Metodologie dell'educazione alla salute orientata all'autocura della persona e della comunità

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)

Learning outcomes

Students will understand the fundamental aspects of health literacy as a strategy for health promotion. They will acquire skills to help citizens/patients acquire and maintain the skills and behaviors necessary for optimal management of life with illness. They will be able to help patients and their families understand their illness and treatment, and collaborate with other professionals in a multiprofessional and interdisciplinary manner to improve their quality of life. Knowledge will be focused on deepening the four stages of therapeutic education, both individual and group, learning effective communication method to support educational interventions, as well as implementing training strategies for the development of information tools to support the care relationship between nurses and patients

Course contents

- Health: definition and evolution

- Health Promotion

- Salutogenesi

- Self-care

- Health Literacy

- Planning and implementation of educational interventions within the healthcare sector

- Communication methods to support educational interventions, strategies for the construction of written information material

- Teaching methods for individuals in the healthcare sector

Readings/Bibliography

- Beghelli, A., Ferraresi A., Manfredini M. (2015) Therapeutic education methodology and applications. Rome, Carrocci publisher

- Longhini J. (2024) Educating for self-care to promote health  principles, methods and cases, Idelson gnocchi Publisher

Teaching methods

Interactive lessons and active learning through group work with the

production of papers

Assessment methods

Closed-answer written assessment test

Teaching tools

computer, projector

Office hours

See the website of Ilaria Pruccoli