title: Decision making in the transtheoretical model of behavior change.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Prevention Research Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA. jop@uri.edu
authors.forename: James O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Prochaska
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012309:Risk-Taking