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EduWeight: Weight Management for Adult Patients with Chronic Disease
Improve your confidence and skills in helping your patients manage their weight
Lifestyle behaviours related to weight management are important in treating chronic disease, but clinicians often lack confidence and skills in having discussions about weight and supporting positive behaviour change. This six-week EduWeight course from the University of Melbourne is designed to change that.
Explore all aspects of weight management
By the end of this EduWeight course, you’ll have a clear understanding of how weight and chronic disease influence each other and how to support positive behaviour change for people living with overweight or obesity.
You’ll start by looking at the physiological mechanisms of weight regulation, weight loss benefits for multiple chronic disease conditions, and body responses to weight change. You’ll also learn about behaviour change theory as well as pragmatic behaviour change techniques to use in your clinical setting.
Ensure positive, stigma-free discussions to promote lifestyle change
You’ll explore the topic of weight stigma, in society and in healthcare, before looking at communication approaches for addressing weight management in a stigma-free manner, as well as intervention strategies to promote weight management.
All of this will help you to have positive and productive discussions with your patients, making them more likely to actively engage in lifestyle changes that fit in with their lives.
Learn about weight management from the experts
This course has been developed by the University of Melbourne with input from expert researchers and clinicians in physiotherapy, endocrinology, dietetics, and behaviour change.
EduWeight is based on current evidence and has been designed to help learning in the area of weight management.
Who will you learn with?
Kim Bennell
Professor of Physiotherapy and Director of the Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine at the University of Melbourne with expertise in the management of chronic musculoskeletal conditions
Rana Hinman
Rana is a physiotherapist, researcher and Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on chronic musculoskeletal pain, along with telehealth & digitally-supported care.
Kim Allison
Kim is a physiotherapist, lecturer, and post-doctoral researcher within the CHESM team. Kim is investigating the role of obesity in osteoarthritis and the consequent role for physiotherapists.
Sarah Jones
Sarah is a biomedical scientist specialised in human physiology and neuroscience. That worked in clinical research at the University of Melbourne
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What You’ll Learn?
Course Syllabus
Introduction, obesity and chronic disease
Overview of weight regulation, overweight and obesity
Examining weight stigma and personal beliefs about weight
Communication approach for addressing weight management
Interventions for weight management
Health behaviour change support
EduWeight conclusion
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