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

Table 3

Motivation to change to health nutrition (NUTR). Data are presented as mean ± SD.

	T0	T1			Cohen’s d
Stages of the change
Precontemplation	37.00 ± 20.12	31.92 ± 22.36	1.96	0.050	0.24
Contemplation	71.50 ± 21.55	56.83 ± 22.46	5.45	0.000	0.67
Determination	81.25 ± 15.50	77.75 ± 16.63	1.90	0.060	n.s.
Action	57.58 ± 26.33	74.75 ± 17.06	−5.87	0.000	0.77
Maintenance	43.08 ± 23.87	63.92 ± 19.79	−7.00	0.000	0.95
Motivational components
Discrepancy	57.90 ± 22.04	41.27 ± 21.57	6.44	0.000	0.76
Importance	85.80 ± 12.75	86.72 ± 13.15	−0.83	0.410	n.s.
Self-Efficacy	71.71 ± 18.45	75.19 ± 15.47	−2.05	0.042	0.20
Temptation	64.43 ± 23.47	52.88 ± 22.55	4.94	0.000	0.50
Readiness to Change	78.27 ± 18.58	75.55 ± 18.40	1.31	0.192	n.s.
Stabilization of Change	61.71 ± 26.38	64.61 ± 20.41	−0.97	0.334	n.s.

Statistical significance was considered at .