Background: Breakfast is a very important meal. It can either make or break your day, and it be daunting task. Objectives: We used the transtheoretical model (TTM) to assess trend of breakfast eating among elementary school students in Jiroft city, Iran. Methods: In this descriptive‑analytic research, 290 city were selected using stratified sampling. Data collected questionnaire trends accordin...

Digital interventions for promoting behavioural changes have become more and more prevalent, due to the ubiquitous role played by the Web 2.0. Not many of these programmes are however grounded on well established theories, both from a psychological and from a dialogue perspective. We present in this paper a model for incorporating a general framework for abstract argumentation, into a motivatio...

Objectives: The stages of change component of the transtheoretical model has been applied to safe sex behaviours in cross-sectional analyses, but have not yet been subject to prospective analysis. It was predicted that: (a) cross-sectional analyses would demonstrate good discrimination between the stages of change, (b) prospective analyses would allow for the identification of predictors of sta...

BACKGROUND Adolescents consume a high level of carbonated drinks and this may have significant adverse effects for their weight and oral health. Therefore, we examined the application of key constructs of the Transtheoretical Model (stages of change, decisional balance and self-efficacy) and health as a value (both general and oral) to adolescent carbonated drink consumption and to identify any...

A descriptive predictive design was used to guide this study. The study conducted in Al-Qadisiyah University. included a convenience sample of 400 undergraduate students. instrument includes students’ sociodemographic sheet age, gender, marital status, and grade. It also Stages Change Scale for Grain Consumption, Decisional Balance Self-Efficacy Consumption. Data Collection: were collected usin...