The purpose of this study was to examine whether variables in the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) acted more as predictors than as consequences of exercise behavior (stage of change). Students from 13 New Zealand high schools (N = 1,434) completed questionnaires corresponding to variables in the TTM (i.e., stage of exercise change, processes of change, self-effi cacy, and decisional balance) at tw...

Domestic Violence Survivor Assessment (DVSA) assesses the process of change using the Transtheoretical Model of Change for 12 issues conceptualized as relating to the relationship or the individual. This article presents the psychometric properties of the revised DVSA with a new item, "Control of Money." The factor analysis was done for 119 survivors resulting in a three-factor solution explain...

A systematic review on the use of Transtheoretical Model Change (TTM) as a predictor variable adherence to Physical Exercise (PE) in breast cancer survivors is presented. The literature was carried out following PRISMA method Scopus, Pubmed, and Psycinfo databases. Both English Spanish. Thirteen articles published from June 2005 2020 were included. All them used TTM constructs their programs. r...

BACKGROUND A practical and ethical challenge in advance care planning research is controlling and intervening on human behavior. Additionally, observing dynamic changes in advance care planning (ACP) behavior proves difficult, though tracking changes over time is important for intervention development. Agent-based modeling (ABM) allows researchers to integrate complex behavioral data about adva...

The rising tide of obesity erodes the health of youths and many times results in adult obesity. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effectiveness of an eight-session health promotion/transtheoretical model Internet/video-delivered intervention to increase physical activity and reduce dietary fat among low-income, culturally diverse, seventh-grade students. Those who completed m...