Chronic Disease Management

Learning objectives:

• Apply motivational interviewing techniques in practice conversations to help patients identify their motivation to make healthy behavior changes.
  • Use open-ended questions to ask about patients' agendas, needs, preferences, understanding, motivations, barriers, and options for goals
  • Affirm patients' past attempts at change, and collaborate with patients to set goals
  • Use complex reflections to focus patients on change talk
  • Use summaries to reflect more change talk and check patients' understanding of information provided
• Apply Gender-Affirming Care techniques (gender-neutral language, transition phrasing, and apologies) in a simulated practice conversation
• Recognize value of MI techniques (OEQs, Affirmations, and Reflections) as tools for exploring how a patient's social circumstances and cultural background impact their relationship to their health, associated risks, and ability to manage their conditions
• Recognize and identify the distress signals of depression

Research shows that with experiential practice, increased emotional engagement and reflective thinking leads to stronger self-efficacy and behavior change.

This simulation was developed through a close collaboration between Kognito's simulation scientists and MI experts.

Users receive customized feedback based on their in-simulation choices.

The simulation is available online 24/7. Users are asked to complete pre-, post-, and 3-month follow up surveys to assess changes in skills. Attitudes, and behavior. Upon completion, users receive a certificate of completion.  Clients have access to usage reports and evaluation data via the Kognito client portal.