Exercise for Supporting Health Literacy
Teach Back Practice: An Exercise Plan
• Triad Role Play Practice: Patient, Clinician, and Observer
• Clinician: Your patient tells you she likes to walk and can commit to walking around the block three times a week at minimum, and keeping a record of the exercise.
• Clinician: Practice Teach-Back in the context of relationship-based care
• Patient: Do your best to follow along. Initially omit the record-keeping piece of the plan
• Clinician: Continue Teach-Back as needed
• Observer: Share strengths and opportunities to stretch
• Shift roles and repeat.
Teach-Back Resources
• Teach-back Training Tool Kit
http://www.teachbacktraining.org/home-of-teach-back-training
• CDC Plain Language Materials and Resources, Dec. 19,2016
https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/developmaterials/plainlanguage.html
• Every Day Words for Public Health Communications, Centers for Disease Control, October 2015
https://www.cdc.gov/other/pdf/everydaywordsforpublichealthcommunication_final_11-5-15.pdf
• Plain Language Thesaurus for Health Communications, Centers for Disease Control
www.plainlanguage.gov/populartopics/health_literacy/Thesaurus_V-10.doc