Innovation “Buddy Care” and Health Promotion Strategic Learning Course: A Case Study at a Health Promotion Hospital

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The purposes of this study were to learn from lesson of an innovation “Buddy care”, develop a learning course of health promotion strategies, and outcomes of the course implementation. Informants included staffs of a health promotion hospital, a head of local government, health volunteers, nursing instructors, and registered nurses. Data were carried out by using focus group discussion, in-depth interview, observation, and obtaining its finding to implement and evaluate in a real setting. Research instruments consisted of questions’ guideline for discussion and interview, handbook for learning, a health promotion knowledge test, an evaluation form for health promotion strategic issue studying, and nurse’s roles. Content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data, and quantitative data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Wilconxon test.

The results revealed that the innovation “Buddy Care” was developed in 2009 by Tambon Takang’s health promotion hospital, Trat province. There were activities, including leadership development and change management for health promotion, continuing knowledge management, health promotion networks development, and a good role model for Health promotion of health care personnel. Using of the innovation resulted in decreased overweightness among population in the setting, decreased incidence of people newly diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and hypertension patients, and increased known cases of patients being able to control blood sugar level and blood pressure. Outcomes of the Health Promotion Strategic Learning Course found that the learners have more knowledge about health promotion. Learning about roles of nurses for health promotion was at high to highest level, which they could apply for health promotion strategies. These findings suggest that community nurse practitioners and related personnel would obtain the innovation “Buddy Care” together with the learning course of health promotion strategies to utilize in the community health promotion. Consequently, people in the community setting could gain a better health.