Table 1 Strategies and activities used in educational intervention program
Construct | Strategy | Activity |
|---|---|---|
Attitude | 1-Strengthen the process of valuing and prioritizing healthy lifestyles and healthy nutritional behaviors (focus on the emotional component of attitude) 2-Convincing towards healthy lifestyle and nutritional behavior (strengthening cognitive attitude) 3-Clarify the main function of healthy nutritional behavior and the positive consequences of healthy nutritional behavior in improving PCOS 4-Group discussion 5-Share ideas | 1-Provide comprehensive, accurate, evidence-based and realistic information about healthy nutrition and improving PCOS 2-Group discussion on the crucial role of weight loss and healthy nutritional behavior in improving PCOS 3-Group discussion on the problems and barriers to healthy nutrition in adolescents and young adults with PCOS |
Subjective norms | 1-Awareness of subjective norms 2-Role playing 3-Peer participation by presenting experiences and discussing each other's experiences 4-Feedback and encouragement to each other | 1-Analysis of subjective norms 2-Discuss the role of important people (mothers, friends, and peers) about healthy nutritional behaviors 3-Discuss and provide solutions for forming affirmative group norms |
Perceived behavioral control | 1-Increased confidence on the feasibility of healthy nutritional behavior, reducing the barriers and complexities of healthy nutritional behavior 2-Overcoming the difficulties of performing the action | 1-Discuss ways to overcome barriers to healthy nutritional behavior 2-Discuss the facilitators of healthy nutritional behavior, identify and reinforce them 3-Practice and implement healthy nutritional behaviors step by step 4-Provide opportunities to report direct experiences about healthy nutritional behaviors and provide verbal encouragement |
Behavioral intention | 1-Identify people's desires for healthy nutritional behaviors 2-Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of healthy nutritional behavior 3-Group decision and public commitment | 1-Discuss and comment on the tendency of adolescents and young adults with PCOS to adopt healthy nutritional behaviors 2-Discussion to recall the short-term and long-term benefits of healthy nutritional behavior 3-Discussion to form a commitment and group decision |