Table 1.
Outline of the intervention content.
| Week | Education materials (A) | Social cognitive theory–based behavioral materials (B) |
| 1 | Overview of diabetes | Goals for life |
| 2 | Healthy diet part 1 | Setting goals |
| 3 | Healthy diet part 2 | Self-reward, turning goals into habits |
| 4 | Medication management | Social support, developing and making your social support network |
| 5 | Glucose self-monitoring | Problem solving: barriers and setbacks Problem solving model |
| 6 | Exercise and diabetes | Problem solving: behavioral triggers and stimulus control |
| 7 | Building muscles with strength training | Problem solving: emotional eating |
| 8 | Grocery shopping at a Chinese grocery store | Problem solving: cravings for white rice, noodle, bun, dumplings etc |
| 9 | Stress and diabetes | Problem solving: eliminating negative self-talk |
| 10 | Chinese holidays and eating out | Problem solving: anticipating high-risk situations |
| 11 | Attending doctor appointments | Problem solving: lapse and relapse |
| 12 | Navigating the US health care system | Problem solving: coping with lapses and setting new goals |