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| Item | Question |
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| Knowledge |
| Q4 | Knows the dietary management of diabetes has been upgraded into MNT. |
| Q5 | Knows that a lot of professional associations recommend MNT as the foundation of diabetes prevention and treatment both at home and abroad. |
| Q8 | Understands and remembers MNT recommendations provided by HCPs. |
| Q9 | Knows the total amount of daily food that should be consumed. |
| Q10 | Knows how to allocate the daily intake of food groups. |
| Q15 | Knows the food restrictions or other factors that may induce malnutrition. |
| Attitude |
| Q11 | Too frightened to take a meal (or reduce intake) because of concerns about increased post-prandial glycaemia |
| Q12 | Too frightened to eat fruits and sweets because of concerns about increased blood glucose. |
| Q20 | Feels distressed or difficult to adhere to self-management according to the MNT recommendations provided by HCPs (multiple choices). If “yes”, the main obstacles for acceptance or adherence to MNT is; (1) no chance to understand; (2) the content is too difficult to be understood; (3) the requirement is too high to adhere to. |
| Practice |
| Q2 | Correctly determined their body-weight group (refer to BMI, kg/m2, low weight ≤18.5; normal 18.6–23.9; overweight 24.0–27.9; obesity ≥28). |
| Q3 | Can calculate the ideal body weight. |
| Q6 | Routinely pay attention to the nutrition status. |
| Q7 | Are routinely provided with MNT recommendations by doctors, clinical dietitians, or nurses. |
| Q13 | Has experienced hypoglycemia due to irregular life style choices. |
| Q14 | Has experienced between-meal hypoglycemia, bedtime hypoglycemia, or nocturnal hypoglycemia |
| Q16 | Routinely follows the recommendations of doctors or clinical dietitians when arranging daily diet, |
| Q17 | Routinely eats more vegetables than meat in order to control blood glucose. |
| Q18 | Routinely increases the intake of snacks as a compensation of the reduction of meals or staple food recommendations. |
| Q19 | Routinely unable to execute the MNT recommendations because of various reasons. |
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