Methods of quantifying change in multiple risk factor interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Risky behaviors such as smoking, alcohol abuse, physical inactivity, and poor diet are detrimental to health, costly, and often co-occur. Greater efforts are being targeted at changing multiple risk behaviors to more comprehensively address the health needs of individuals and populations. With increased interest in multiple risk factor interventions, the field will need ways to conceptualize the issue of overall behavior change.

Method

Analyzing data from over 8000 participants in four multibehavioral interventions, we present five different methods for quantifying and reporting changes in multiple risk behaviors.

Results

The methods are: (a) the traditional approach of reporting changes in individual risk behaviors; (b) creating a combined statistical index

SUBMITTER: Prochaska JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2288581 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature