The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) has for some time now enjoyed fame (or even notoriety). Indeed, Health Education Research has been pleased to publish a number of articles over recent years. We were especially pleased to publish Adams and White’s (Adams and White, 2004) interesting and arguably heretical paper which appears in this edition of the Journal (and was published in advance on our web...

THE BENEFITS OF INCREASING the diversity of leadership in academic medicine have been reviewed and confirmed by a number of expert groups,1–6 yet women and underrepresented minorities are not rising through faculty ranks or entering leadership in academic medicine at rates predicted by their proportions in medical school over the past 30 years.7,8 This is an issue that must engage all stakehold...

This integrative study investigated the generalization of the transtheoretical model across 12 problem behaviors. The cross-sectional comparisons involved relationships between two key constructs of the model, the stages of change and decisional balance. The behaviors studied were smoking cessation, quitting cocaine, weight control, high-fat diets, adolescent delinquent behaviors, safer sex, co...

A low rate of physical activity (PA) participation is observed worldwide. The identification of feasible and reliable instruments able to accurately measuring PA and help in the development of interventions to promote PA are necessary. This study aimed to analyze the concordance between the Stages of Behavior Change Questionnaire (SBCQ) and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPA...

Leadership experts agree that a key challenge facing leaders now and in the future is responsiveness to radical change. This article continues prior work on radical change with theory and research on leadership style. The result is a model of radical change describing the leadership styles best suited to the successful implementation of each stage in the change process. Using the Leadership Sty...

background and objectives: constructs of behavioral models such as trans-theoretical model can be associated with healthy eating behaviors like increasing fiber intake. they can also be effective in improving these behaviors in patients with diabetes. this study aimed to assess the association of self-efficacy and decisional balance with stages of change for fiber intake and glycemic control in...