{"id":559,"date":"2014-11-20T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/?page_id=559"},"modified":"2019-05-09T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:33:30","slug":"stages-of-change-short-form","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/measures\/exercise\/stages-of-change-short-form\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Stages of Change (Short Form)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Exercise: Stages of Change (Short Form)<\/h1>\n<p>Regular Exercise is any&nbsp;<em>planned<\/em>&nbsp;physical activity (e.g., brisk walking, aerobics, jogging, bicycling, swimming, rowing, etc.) performed to increase physical fitness.&nbsp; Such activity should be performed&nbsp;<em>3 to 5 times&nbsp;<\/em>per week for<em>&nbsp;20-60 minutes<\/em>&nbsp;per session.&nbsp; Exercise does not have to be painful to be effective but should be done at a level that increases your breathing rate and causes you to break a sweat.<\/p>\n<h2>Do you exercise regularly according to that definition?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, I have been for&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">MORE than 6 months<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, I have been for&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">LESS than 6 months<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>No, but I intend to in the&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">next 30 days<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>No, but I intend to in the&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">next 6 months<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>No, and I do&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">NOT<\/span>&nbsp;intend to in the&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">next 6 months<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Scoring<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>answered with choice #1: stage = Maintenance<\/li>\n<li>answered with choice #2: stage = Action<\/li>\n<li>answered with choice #3: stage = Preparation<\/li>\n<li>answered with choice #4: stage = Contemplation<\/li>\n<li>answered with choice #5: stage = Precontemplation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>Norman, G.J., Benisovich, S.V., Nigg, C.R. &amp; Rossi, J.S., (March, 1998). Examining three exercise staging algorithms in two samples. Poster presented at SBM. New Orleans, LA.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus, B.H., Selby, V.C., Niaura, R.S., &amp; Rossi, J.S. (1992). Self-efficacy and the stages of exercise behavior change.&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport<\/span>, 63, 60-66.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information about this measure contact:<\/strong><br \/>\nClaudio Nigg, Ph.D.<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #002147\" href=\"mailto:cnigg@hawaii.edu\">cnigg@hawaii.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise: Stages of Change (Short Form) Regular Exercise is any&nbsp;planned&nbsp;physical activity (e.g., brisk walking, aerobics, jogging, bicycling, swimming, rowing, etc.) performed to increase physical fitness.&nbsp; Such activity should be performed&nbsp;3 to 5 times&nbsp;per week for&nbsp;20-60 minutes&nbsp;per session.&nbsp; Exercise does not have to be painful to be effective but should be done at a level that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1917,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/559\/revisions\/2768"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cprc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}