Session | Major intervention content |
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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 |