| Date: | April 8, 2006 1:12 pm |
| Subject: | Miscellaneous | | Word Count: | 364 | | Page Count: | 2 |
Stages of Change Model
I came upon this article in Nutrition Toady Volume 31 #4 from
August 1996. Nutrition Today isn^Òt quite the magazine you would
find me reading, but to tell you the truth this article
interested me greatly. The author is a lady who has a
nutritional doctorate. This article includes many claims
about what it takes physically and mentally to eat right and keep
a healthy body weight, but at the same time it proves those
claims with many facts.
The big question is if dietary behavior change is difficult, how
can health and nutrition professionals effectively intervene.
The author uses the Stages of Change Model as proposed by
Prochaska and Colleagues for addictive behaviors consists of six
dynamic stages. The six stages are: Precontemplation,
Contemplation, preparation, action maintenance, and
termination. Precontemplation is when an individual is not
considering making any changes. Contemplation is the time when
an individual is aware there is a problem and is considering
taking action to resolve it. Preparation refers to the time when
an individual commits to taking action sometime within the next
30 days. Action is the busiest time. There are noticeable
efforts to change the targeted behavior. Maintenance is the
stage when a person tries to stabilize the behavior change and
prevent relapse. Termination is the final stage, this occurs
when there is zero temptation to revert back to the old behavior.
Now the author uses these six stages to relate it to dietary
habits and how people can use this process in their lives and
make them become aware how to fix their dietary
problems and even problems beyond that.
In this article the author says, and I quote ^ÓThis model
may be useful for nutrition and health professionals in both
clinical and community settings.
It can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational
intervention. As a result of reading this article I became more
aware of myself and what to look for when getting into bad
habits. I would recommend this article to anybody
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