Organizational Health Literacy Advisor / Senior Consultant, CEO Strategic Action Health Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States
Presentation Summary: Lifestyle medicine practitioners face a growing challenge: patients arriving with trending, often invalid health interventions sourced from misinformation. Rather than viewing this as a roadblock, practitioners can use these moments to engage patients in a deeper, more comprehensive conversation about health. This session provides practitioners with tools to address misinformation while empowering patients to critically evaluate health options and build a personalized health philosophy. By reframing misinformation as a starting point, attendees will learn to guide patients in exploring lifestyle, complementary, and medical interventions that resonate with their goals and values.
Attendees will explore strategies to equip patients with tools to discern credible health information and recognize misinformation and to address the emotional and cognitive biases driving misinformation and trends. They will also learn how to teach patients to develop a personalized health philosophy that integrates lifestyle medicine with other health interventions and to foster a comprehensive approach that empowers patients to make informed decisions while reinforcing the role of lifestyle medicine as foundational.
Attendees will leave with practical tools like website quality checklists, decision aids, and conversation frameworks to transform misinformation into a teachable moment, fostering collaboration and meaningful patient outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
Identify and analyze the marketing strategies behind quick-fix health trends and misinformation to better understand their appeal to patients.
Identify empathy-driven, open-ended questions to engage patients in meaningful conversations about their health decisions and the sources of their information.
Learn how to guide patients through collaborative evaluations of health trends using tools such as pros/cons lists and the CREECS framework (Cost, Risk, Effort, Effectiveness, Commitment, Support).
Integrate lifestyle, complementary, and medical interventions into patient discussions by helping them create a personalized health philosophy that aligns with their goals and values.
Teach patients how to identify credible health information by using website quality checklists and evidence-based evaluation criteria.
