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| Stages of change across ten health risk behaviors for older adults | | Author(s) | Patricia M Burbank, Cindy Padula, Robert Dufresne |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 4, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp 473-482 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behaviour change has been successfully applied to a number of health risk behaviours. This study investigated the stage distribution of 10 healthy behaviours (seatbelt use, avoidance of high fat food, eating a high fibre diet, attempting to lose weight, exercising regularly, avoiding sun exposure, sunscreen use, attempting to reduce stress, stopping smoking, and conducting cancer self-examinations) and their interrelationship in a representative sample of health maintenance organisation (HMO) members. The majority of older adults were found to be in either pre-contemplation or maintenance, illustrating the need to target interventions to pre-contemplation. Most older adults were in pre-contemplation for losing weight and/or sunscreen use and exercise, making these behaviours a priority for intervention research. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000118235 A |
| Classmark | CC: LK2: 7T |
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