This study was to identify the factors associated with stages of exercise behavior change of residents in a community on the basis of the Transtheoretical Model.
Methods
Data were collected from 520 residents of a community using a self-report questionnaire. The survey variables comprised the stages of exercise behavior change, the process of change, decisional balance and self efficacy.
Results
There were significant differences in the process of change, decisional balance and self efficacy by the stages of exercise behavior change. The factors associated with transition from pre-contemplation to contemplation were consciousness raising and self efficacy; regarding those from contemplation to preparation, cons of the decisional balance and social liberation; regarding those from preparation to action, dramatic relief and counter conditioning; regarding that from action to maintenance, cons of the decisional balance.
Conclusion
TTM would be applicable to explain the exercise behavior of some residents in a community, which suggested that the programs for improving exercise behavior of residents in a community need to be developed.
Standardized T-score of decisional balance by stage of change in exercise.
Table 1
General Characteristics of Participants by Stage of Change in Exercise Behaviors (N=520)
Table 2
Difference in Change Process, Decisional Balance and Self Efficacy by Stages of Change in Exercise Behavior (N=520)
a, b, c, d=Scheffé test.
Table 3
Predictors for Stages of Change in Exercise Behavior. (N=520)
Note. Goodness of fitness (χ2=1216.06, p=1.000).
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