This document discusses various methods of communication. It defines communication and identifies its key components and processes. These include the sender, receiver, message, channel, encoding, decoding and feedback. The document also outlines important communication skills like listening, understanding your audience, confidence, and body language. It discusses barriers to communication such as physiological, psychological, environmental, cultural and semantic factors. Finally, it examines methods for health education communication including individual instruction, lectures, audiovisual aids, mass media, and peer discussion groups.

1. METHODS OF
COMMUNICATION
Dr. Abhishek Tiwari, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Medicine

2. Learning objectives
● To understand the process & types of communication
● Its components
● Different skills of communication
● Barriers
● Application

3. Introduction
● Communication “To share meaning and understanding
between the person sending the message and the person
receiving the message”
● Verbal & Non-verbal
● Verbal - the tone of voice can communicate feelings and
emotions that are as significant as the words being spoken

4. Communication Process
● Definition
● Types
● Components of process
● Communication skills
● Barriers

5. Components of communication process
● The Sender
● The Receiver
● The Message
● The Channel
● Encoding / Decoding / Feedback

6. Communication Skills
● Definition
● Listening with lot of intent to what the receiver wants to
convey
● Understand your “Target Audience”
● Friendliness
● Confidence

7. Communication Skills
● Two-way feedback
● Be understandable
● Be a good listener
● Importance of body language
● Responsiveness

8. Barriers in Communication
● Physiological - difficulty in hearing & speech
● Psychological - emotional disturbance
● Environmental - noise
● Cultural - illeteracy, levels of knowledge
● Semantic barrier - difference in interpretation of meaning
of words

9. Health education & communication
1. Overall strategy / approach
2. Levels of health education
3. Activities undertaken in individual methods
4. Methods of health education

10. Strategy/ Approaches in health education
1. Simple health education strategy
2. Health education combined with facilities or services
3. Health education combined with statutory provisions
4. Comprehensive health care approach

11. Levels of Health Education
1. Individual & family health education - Interview,
counselling
2. Group health education - FGD, panel discussion, role
playing
3. Education of general public (mass)

12. Health education
“Multiplicative effect”
“Ascending Education”

13. Methods of Health Education
1. Individual instruction (Counselling, patient instruction)
2. Lecture: discussion
3. Educational television / computer
4. Audiovisual methods
5. Mass media methods
6. Peer group discussion
7. Programed learning
8. Simulation & games
9. Inquiry learning
10.Behaviour change methods

14. Planning & Implementing Health Education
1. Situational Analysis
2. Consolidate data on knowledge, attitude and behaviours
3. Make the Community Diagnosis
4. Ensure community participation
5. State the educational goals & objective
6. Identify methods for health education
7. Disseminate implementation plan
8. Implementation

15. Models in Health Education
● KAP
● IEC
● BCC
● TRIANDIS

16. Principles of Health Education
1. Community participation
2. Clear understanding and comprehension of “Target
Audience”
3. Voluntarism
4. Respect for cultural norms
5. Health educator - credibility

17. Principles of Health Education
1. Evaluation & feedback
2. Accuracy
3. Reinforcement
4. Positive change
5. Hands - on
Propaganda & advocacy

19. Introduction
● Non-verbal