The Effect of Educating Based on The Transtheoretical Model on Selfe-efficacy and Decision Balancing of Junior School Students in Breakfast Consumption

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• breakfast
• transtheoretical mode
• students