... to promote and individualistic approach, where the individual can tailor the model to their own personal health behaviours, and promote change. A study looking at adolescents' consumption of carbonated drinks (Buchanan and Coulson, 2007) supports the transtheoretical model. The findings show that many of the teens are either in the pre-contemplation or contemplation stage in regards to changing the consumption of the fizzy drinks, and suggest that using this model would help provide a framework to create tailored health promotion interventions. Another study carried out in 2006 researching the consumption of fruit and vegetables among adolescents also supported the transtheoretical model (Di Noia, Schinke, Prochaska, Contento, 2006) The results showed that the adolescents in later stages in the cycle were more successful in changing their behaviours than those in the pre contemplation or contemplation stage, those in the later stages also used more processes of change. This would then suggest ...

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