Stage of Change and Motivation to a Healthier Lifestyle before and after an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention

Table 2

Motivation to change to physical activity (PA) at baseline and after the intervention. Data are presented as mean ± SD.

	T0	T1		p	Cohen’s d
Stages of the change
Precontemplation	22.17 ± 21.75	16.00 ± 17.03	2.82	0.006	0.32
Contemplation	61.42 ± 23.38	52.50 ± 22.46	3.61	0.000	0.39
Determination	84.50 ± 17.16	84.08 ± 16.88	0.24	0.814	n.s.
Action	55.66 ± 31.51	80.08 ± 20.85	−6.94	0.000	0.91
Maintenance	42.75 ± 28.79	68.00 ± 18.98	−8.96	0.000	1.03
Motivational components
Discrepancy	60.94 ± 23.36	41.65 ± 22.86	6.67	0.000	0.83
Importance	86.06 ± 11.29	88.93 ± 9.85	−2.41	0.018	0.27
Self-Efficacy	74.47 ± 14.40	79.93 ± 12.72	−3.43	0.001	0.40
Temptation	41.18 ± 21.34	35.58 ± 23.98	2.28	0.025	0.25
Readiness to Change	79.06 ± 19.36	81.88 ± 13.37	−1.24	0.215	n.s.
Stabilization of Change	55.85 ± 28.12	67.56 ± 18.30	−3.75	0.000	0.49

Statistical significance was considered at .