Promoting Exercise Behavior among Chinese Youth with Hearing Loss

The transtheoretical model proposes that behavior change is experienced as a series of stages. Interventions tailored to these stages are most likely to be effective in progressing people through the model's hypothesized behavior change continuum. In this study, a stage-tailored, 12-week, exercise behavior intervention based on the transtheoretical model was conducted among a sample of 150 Chinese youth with hearing loss. Participants were randomized into an intervention or control group with all the core transtheoretical model constructs assessed pre- and post-intervention. Participants in the intervention group showed greater advances in their stage of exercise behavior change, decisional balance, and processes of change use compared to those in the control group. The intervention, however, was insufficient for increasing participants' self-efficacy for exercise behavior. The findings partially support the utility of the theory-based intervention for improving the exercise behavior of Chinese youth with hearing loss, while simultaneously helping to identify areas in need of improvement for future applications

Behavior change · Developmental psychology · Intervention (counseling · Physical therapy · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Randomized controlled trial · Transtheoretical model · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Green Space and Health

• A Stage-Matched Intervention for Exercise Behavior Change Based on the Transtheoretical Model

  Open Access•Youngho Kim•Psychological Reports•2008

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