To provide individualized counselling, the participants had to evaluate the woman's life situation.
During these individualized counselling sessions, the subject's questions regarding yogic practices, diet, prognosis, test results etc. were answered.
Briefly, the participants in the intervention group were given detailed and individualized counselling to achieve the set lifestyle goals.
In our view, individualized counselling of patients, regarding prognosis, expectations and quality of life, is necessary, before a decision about treatment for HNSCC is made.
Therefore we advocate individualized counselling of patients regarding prognosis, quality of life and patient wishes and expectations to achieve shared decision making in treatment for HNSCC.
However, individualized counselling is warranted, regarding prognosis and risk of relapse based on age and cancer pathological features, before patients can make informed reproductive decisions (Banks and Reeves, 2007; Hickey et al., 2009).
If more time than is currently spent is needed to deliver all components of recommended care, this may present a challenge for providing individualized counselling in clinics with heavy workloads.
Each subject in the intervention group received individualized counselling aimed at reducing weight, total intake of fat, and intake of saturated fat and increasing intake of fiber and physical activity.
This study is family-centred and includes individualized counselling sessions on nutrition, PA and sedentary behaviors occurring 4 weeks after baseline for 5 months, then at the end of month 8.
b) Caregivers: 1 individualized counselling session, 1 family session, and 4 educational group sessions conducted by participating PHCT professionals; in addition to usual home health care visits, periodic telephone follow-up contact and unlimited telephone support.
Women's lack of autonomy and decision making ability in the study setting plus the sensitivity of some issues (e.g., HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, violence against women) also mean that a group approach cannot completely replace the need for individualized counselling[ 12].
