Follow-up counseling
The participants were encouraged to enter their current targeted food
intake and pedometer data on a website for self-monitoring during the entire
study period. At the end of the first and then the second month, the
counselors supported the participant in reviewing the month's achievements,
to evaluate the level of achievement of his action plan based on the subject's
own self-monitoring records, then encouraged him to consider the reason for
the results and possible ways to more effectively implement or revise the
plan. These face-to-face sessions each lasted 10 min. The participants
received website advice after the personal counseling. At the end of the
third month, the participants reported their conditions on their website
pages, and the counselors both entered comments and advice, for example:
answer his questions, acknowledge and praise what he was able to change, or
advise him to lower the level and/or change the target if he was not able to
change, remind him of behaviors he could to do with his family, let him think
over the plan to change without effort if he felt stressed, and so on.