Processes of change for Weight control Behavior among collegians Basha Ahmed Adil Ali1,*, Naji Arkan Bahlol2 1Specialist Nurse (MSc), Child Welfare Hospital, Medical City Directorate, Baghdad, Iraq 2Professor, Department of Community Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Baghdad *Corresponding Author: Ahmed Adil Ali Basha, Child Welfare Hospital, Medical City Directorate, Baghdad, Iraq, Email: ahmedadil4542@gmail.com
Online published on 13 November, 2019. Abstract A randomized controlled trial was used to guide this study. This study aimed to examine the effect of the Transtheoretical of Change-based intervention (TTM) in bettering collegians’ readiness to adhere to weight control behavior. The study was conducted at the College of Languages, University of Baghdad. The study included 152 students who were randomly selected and assigned into two groups; study and control groups. Each group included 76 students. The study instrument consists of the sociodemographic sheet and the Processes for Change for Weight Control Scale. Data were collected by a self-report questionnaire. Data were analyzed using the statistical package for social science (SPSS) for windows, version 24. The study results demonstrated that there is a statistically significant difference in the Processes of Change for weight control for students in the study group over time with an approximately 73% of variance in the value of the Decisional Balance that could be attributed to the administered TTTM-based intervention. There was a positively significant correlation between students’ BMI and each of Processes of Change over time. The researcher concluded that the TTM-based intervention enabled students to employ more both the cognitive and behavioral Processes of Change for weight control behavior. Top Keywords Processes of Change, Weight Control Behavior. Top |