Are Current Health Behavioral Change Models Helpful in Guiding Prevention of Weight Gain Efforts?

摘要: Effective procedures are needed to prevent the substantial increases in adiposity that have been occurring among children and adults. Behavioral change may occur as a result of changes in variables that mediate interventions. These mediating variables have typically come from the theories or models used to understand behavior. Seven categories of theories and models are reviewed to define the concepts and to identify the motivational mechanism (s), the resources that a person needs for change, the processes by which …