Reference no: EM133901172

Question

What is the intervention here: The first session covered contents related to skills to access and cognitive skills about T2DM. The innovative booklet was used to make the participants gain knowledge of T2DM and diabetes complications (this activity is called "Do not entrust on the diabetes"). The participants were taught and demonstrated how to search for valid information from online applications (this activity is called "Searching on valid information"). Thereafter, they practised searching on the Internet under the supervision of the researcher. The second session provided three contents related to (1) reminding participants, (2) communication skills, and (3) media literacy. Reminding participants was done by the researcher to remind them what they had learnt and what they had practised during the week. Communication skills are based on how the participants can communicate their diabetes with healthcare professionals and their relatives, including how to read their prescriptions and drug adminis- tration (this activity is called "Improve understanding about diabetes"). This communication skill used an individual booklet provided by the researcher. Media literacy was improved by using how to use media and useful information and sources of health information and how to check health data from online sources (this activity is called.