Examples of participatory intervention activities.
Self-awareness/self-assessment of vulnerability/threat:Describe own nutrition and related lifestyle behaviors;Describe perceptions of personal vulnerability;Describe perceptions of personal threat.Barriers:Identify barriers to achieving a balanced diet [e.g., unavailability, lack of money, lack of land (gardens), time, cost, distance, lack of knowledge, and lack of motivation];Identify barriers to physical activity (e.g., time, lack of motivation, lack of knowledge, and lack of facilities);Devise ways of dealing with barriers.Personal control/social norms and cultures:Express feelings of personal power/control over barriers;Express whether they believed that their health was in the hands of chance/fate/luck/witchcraft (external locus of control) or whether they believed that their health was in their own hands (internal locus of control);Identify social norms and cultures that promote or inhibit the performance of recommended action (e.g., the role played by peers, parents, husband, and relatives).Thoughts and feelings:Express thoughts and feelings regarding intended nutritional changes by reporting how the changes are going to affect them personally;Predict how their families are going to react to the new changes and how this is going to affect them personally;Propose ways to deal with the reactions, both personally and otherwise.Self-efficacy/goal setting/intention to act:Describe confidence in achieving a balanced diet every day/week;Demonstrate the ability to compile a budget for food;Describe intended changes to food production, purchases, and preparation.Knowledge:Use food pictures to demonstrate which foods are included under the different FBDGs;Identify foods that are considered to be healthy and less healthy.After completion of the interviews, women were served a light meal of sandwiches with tea and fruit.