The transtheoretical model posits that health behavior change involves progress through six stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination. Ten processes of change have been identified for producing progress along with decisional balance, self-efficacy, and temptations. Basic research has generated a rule of thumb for at-risk populations: 40...

OBJECTIVE To examine evidence for properties of the transtheoretical model stages of change-decisional balance relationship as applied to dietary behavior. METHODS Data extracted from 27 studies of 8 different behaviors were examined. RESULTS The measurement structure of decisional balance, relative magnitude of the pros and cons within stages, and shifts in the pros and cons across stages ...

The under-representation of women in the science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines is of broad national concern. This paper reports on the development of new Transtheoretical Model-based measures to assess readiness to take action to advance women scientists. Reliable, valid measures of stage of change, decisional balance, and self-efficacy were developed with a sample of science f...

OBJECTIVE To understand hearing behaviors of adults seeking help for the first time through the application of two models of health behavior change: the transtheoretical model and the health belief model. DESIGN The relationships between attitudes and beliefs were examined relative to hearing-aid uptake and outcomes six months later. STUDY SAMPLE One hundred and sixty adults completed the U...

This is an overview of the Transtheoretical Model of Change, a theoretical model of behavior change, which has been the basis for developing effective interventions to promote health behavior change. The Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983; Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992; Prochaska & Velicer, 1997) is an integrative model of behavior change. Key constructs from other t...

Purpose: The present study examined whether reasons for physical activity, as formulated by the selfdetermination theory, differed across the stages identified by the transtheoretical model of behaviour

BACKGROUND Transtheoretical model is identified as a comprehensive model for behavior exercise. The aim of this study was to check the situation of stage of change in exercise behavior of office personnel of Yazd city using transtheoretical model. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 220 office personnel selected from administrative offices of Yazd through two-stage cluster-sampling method. Th...