Decision Making in the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change

James O. Prochaska
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James O. Prochaska: Cancer Prevention Research Center, University of RhodeIsland, Kingston, jop@uri.edu

Medical Decision Making, 2008, vol. 28, issue 6, 845-849

Abstract: Decision making is an integral part of the transtheoretical model of behavior change. Stage of change represents a temporal dimension for behavior change and has been the key dimension for integrating principles and processes of change from across leading theories of psychotherapy and behavior change. The decision-making variables representing the pros and cons of changing have been found to have systematic relationships across the stages of change for 50 health-related behaviors. Implications of these patterns of relationships are discussed in the context of helping patients make more effective decisions to decrease health risk behaviors and increase health-enhancing behaviors.

Keywords: stages of change; pros and cons of changing; health behavior changes. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/0272989X08327068

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