Background and Objective: As an essential element of health promotion programs, nutritional education improves the nutrition behaviors of students. The present study examined the effect of using the transtheoretical model in students breakfast consumption. Methods: This semi-experimental study was performed on290 first level students of secondary school in Jiroft city. At the begining they have taken in two experimental and control groups by multi-stages and using a structured questionnaire including items on demographic information, stages of change, self-efficacy, decisional balance, breakfast intake. Data were collected before and after three months. Results: The mean age of students wase 13/74±387 and girls and boys ratio was equivalent. Interventional results show meaningful average increasing of balancing decision from 31to 46 and selfe-efficiency from 27to 34. Conclusion: The findings proved that TTM was a useful model that can be applied to dietary behavior change such as breakfast consumption in students.
Purnarani R, Hassani L, Aghamolaei T, Mohseni S. The Effect of Educating Based on The Transtheoretical Model on Selfe-efficacy and Decision Balancing of Junior School Students in Breakfast Consumption. Iran J Health Educ Health Promot 2017; 5 (2) :102-112 URL: http://journal.ihepsa.ir/article-1-572-en.html