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. 2014 Jun 6;14:568. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-568

Table 1.

Lifestyle intervention contents

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