Session # | Topics covered | Exercises |
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1 | CVD risk factors and diabetes | Discuss modifiable and non-modifiable behavioral risks |
2 | Psychological well-being, depression, anxiety and stress | Identify sources of and strategies to reduce depression, anxiety, and stress |
3 | Role of nutrition in disease | Review eating habits and develop plan to eat healthier |
4 | Improving physical and emotional health with exercise | Strategies for overcoming obstacles and creating a habit to exercise on a regular basis |
5 | Smoking and smokeless tobacco cessation | Discuss harmful effects of tobacco, triggers, and strategies for quitting |
6 | Alcohol use | Discuss harmful effects of alcohol, triggers, and strategies for quitting |
7 | Social support for behavior change | Sources of emotional, practical, and informational, strategies for approaching family, friends, and community for support, identify social support needs. Communication skills to use with unsupportive people. |
8 | Quality of life | Assessing quality of life and identifying strategies to improve quality of life |
9 | Tools for initial behavior change | Self-monitoring, goal setting, self-reinforcement, setting up an environment that supports change |
10 | Review of sessions 1-9 | Identify successes and barriers to behavior change |
11, 12 | Long term maintenance of behaviors. Different strategies needed for initial change | Setting and reaching behavior change goals by using strategies learned in previous sessions |
Monthly | Behavioral maintenance session | Review accomplishments, problem solving barriers, revising plans, utilizing group support |