Ontologies are widely used in computer science and medicine. Ontologies may be useful in health promotion and disease prevention for intervention development. Interventionists usually use theory to guide intervention design and evaluation, but there is no standard vocabulary for health behavior theory. A formal mechanism for converting theory to a computer-based representation may provide a too...

A high proportion of individuals with disabilities remain physically inactive. Therefore, this study (web-based survey) investigated the relationships between the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) and physical activity among 224 adults with physical disabilities (M age = 45.4 years, SD = 10.78, females = 71%). Additionally, the most important TTM predictors of the stages of change and physical activ...

Three questions guided a literature review of the transtheoretical model (TTM) as applied to exercise to address the evidence for stage-matched interventions, the description of priority populations, and the identification of valid TTM measurement tools. One-hundredand-fifty studies were reviewed. Results indicate preliminary support for the use of stage-matched exercise interventions. Most stu...

The application of theory to practice can be challenging. This article describes the experiences of one organization in applying the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) to a health promotion program for older adults, Health Stages. The concepts of the model, especially stage of change, were successfully used for program planning, curriculum development, and program evaluation. A Programming Grid was d...

Smoking remains the most significant modifiable risk factor for the leading causes of death in the United States. The most frequently used theoretical model used to guide interventions directed toward smoking cessation has been the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) (Prochaska and DiClemente, 1983), although the effectiveness and efficacy of the model's use in guiding smoking cessation interventions ...

Introduction: Transtheoretical model (TTM) is one of the models applied to assess the physical activity behavior. From critiques to this model is that the majority of the studies based on the transtheoretical model have employed cross-sectional designs so that it fails to show the dynamic nature of change. Thus, the aim of the current study was to investigate transitional shifts in Physical Act...

A systematic review on the use of Transtheoretical Model Change (TTM) as a predictor variable adherence to Physical Exercise (PE) in breast cancer survivors is presented. The literature was carried out following PRISMA method Scopus, Pubmed, and Psycinfo databases. Both English Spanish. Thirteen articles published from June 2005 2020 were included. All them used TTM constructs their programs. r...