| Subcategories | Categories |
| Information about diet | Before DSME: Feeling insecure |
| Information about physical activity | |
| Information about self-monitoring of blood glucose | |
| Food nutrition labels | Just after the DSME: Optimism and incipient control |
| Food combination―weekly diet plan | |
| Self-monitoring of blood glucose | |
| Physical activity | |
| Coping/mastery | Six months after DSME: Life satisfaction and well-being |
| Confidence | |
| Responsibility for own illness |