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Table 1 Lifestyle intervention contents

From: Efficacy of a church-based lifestyle intervention programme to control high normal blood pressure and/or high normal blood glucose in church members: a randomized controlled trial in Pretoria, South Africa

Session

Major intervention content

1

-Lifestyle influence health, diabetes, hypertension, risk factors and development, effects, prevention

-Goals, planning, homework and other exercises, including sensible alcohol use

-Homework assignments: monitoring own behaviour with food diary (including identifying sodium content of foods) and physical activity schedule

2

-Returning of food diaries

-Comparison of own habits with the diet and physical activity goals sufficient for prevention, Role modelling, analysis and re-attribution

-Homework assignments: preparation for goal setting, monitoring physical activity and eating habits

3

-Feedback from the physical activity schedule

-Goal planning

-Homework assignments: feedback and re-enforcement; monitoring physical activity and eating habits

4

-Feedback based on findings from food diaries

-Education on how to eat healthy?

-Goal planning, Goal setting

-Homework assignments: positive feedback in getting social support; monitoring physical activity and eating habits

5

-Evaluating and refining the goals

-Routines, changed; intermediate goals

-Exercise: how to overcome barriers, how to use resources in maintaining the behaviour changes

-Homework assignments: monitoring physical activity and eating habits

6

-Evaluating the goals

-Routines, changed; analysis and re-attribution of success and failure

-Future goals and evaluation