Results
Table 2 shows participant stage distribution. Differences in
measures across stage are shown in Tables 3 and 4 and Fig. 1. Total
physical activity increased from contemplation to action and
decreased from action to maintenance. The only significant difference
identified was from contemplation to maintenance (p ¼ 0.02).
Self-efficacy and pros on decisional balance increased with
increasing stage. The only significant difference recorded on both
was from contemplation to maintenance (p < .005). The following
stage differences were identified in process use: consciousness
raising increased from contemplation to action (p ¼ 0.04), selfliberation
increased from contemplation to maintenance (p ¼ 0.04),
helping relationships increased from preparation to maintenance
(p ¼ 0.04), counter conditioning increased from contemplation to
preparation, action and maintenance (p < 0.05) and reinforcement
management increased from contemplation and preparation to
maintenance (p < 0.05). There was more use of experiential,
compared to behavioural processes in the preparation stage
(p ¼ 0.006), but not contemplation (p ¼ 0.3), action (p ¼ 0.4) or
maintenance (p ¼ 0.7) stages.