Journal
MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 845-849Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X08327068
Keywords
stages of change; pros and cons of changing; health behavior changes
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [CA50087] Funding Source: Medline
- NCRR NIH HHS [P20 RR016457] Funding Source: Medline
- NIA NIH HHS [AG24490] Funding Source: Medline
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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.
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