Relationship of self-efficacy, benefits, barriers, and Processes of Change with stages of change for Breakfact counsumption in student of Jiroft City

Breakfast has been known as the most important daily meal and its Regular consumption affects physical, mental and social health .The aim of this study was to determinate the relationship between self-efficacy, benefits, barriers and Processes of Change with stages of change for breakfast consumption in students of Jiroft city.
In this cross-sectional study, 290 secondary school students of Jiroft city were selected through clustered sampling. Data for determination of self-efficacy, benefits, barriers, and processes of Change regarding the breakfast consumption were collected by questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS ver. 16. Descriptive statistics (Average, standard deviation and frequency) and variance analysis were used.
According to the results, 9.3% of students were in the pre-contemplation stage,21.7% in the contemplation stage, 53.4% in preparation stage, 7.2% in action stage and 8.3% in the maintenance stage. There was a significant association between self-efficacy, benefits, barriers, and processes of Change and regular breakfast consumption (p In order to change the breakfast consumption behavior in students and achieve the stages of action and maintenance; designing and implementation of appropriate training programs for increasing self-efficacy in students,increasing the knowledge about the benefits of breakfast, and eliminating the barriers is recommended.