Table 2.
The first session | Preparing for subsequent consultations: Invitation to work together The HbA1c measurement |
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Consultations: | Reflection sheets (RS) |
Your life with diabetes | RS 1a. Important events and periods in your life RS 1b. At present, what do you find difficult about living with diabetes? RS 1c. Unfinished sentences—your needs, values, habits and opportunities RS 1d. A picture, metaphor or expression of your life with diabetes |
Focus for change | RS 2a. Room for diabetes in your life RS 2b. Your plans for changing your way of life |
Work with changes | RS 3a. Clarification of challenge in your life with diabetes RS 3b. Previous problem-solving: thoughts, feelings, goals and actions RS 3c. Dynamic problem-solving |
Changes in daily life | RS 4a. Blood sugar checks and your reasons for checking RS 4b. New strategies and long-term plan for change RS 4c. Dynamic judgement of current and future problem solving RS 4d. ‘Pros and cons’ |
GSD, Guided Self-Determination; HbA1c, glycosylated haemoglobin; T2DM, type 2 diabetes.