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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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