Most health promotion programs involve lifestyle behavioral changes. What occurs during the precontemplation stage?
A) The employee is considering making an effort to change behavior.
B) The employee is weighing the pros and cons of change.
C) The employee may not know how to make change and considers it impossible.
D) The employee is made aware of benefits of change.
Ans: D
Precontemplation: In this stage, the employee is not even thinking about changing his or her behavior. The goal is to make the person aware of the benefits of change and to get him or her to start thinking about the possibility of change.
Contemplation: In this stage, the employee is at least considering making an effort to change his or her behavior. The employee is weighing the pros and the cons. The employee may not know how to change and may consider the change to be almost impossible. The attempt to change is not worth the effort if failure is to occur. The goal is to help the employee identify the benefits and to decide that putting forth an effort to change is worthwhile.
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