The Effect of Educational Intervention Based on the Transtheoretical Model on Stages of Change of Physical Activity in a Sample of Employees in Iran

Promotion of physical activity is one of the most effective strategies for reducing the risk of certain chronic and non-communicable diseases.
To investigate the effect of an educational intervention, based on the transtheoretical model of stages of change of physical activity, on the employees of Abu Musa Island, in the south of Iran.
Different offices of Abu Musa Island including those for health, education, municipalities, civil, government, telecommunications, and welfare were divided randomly into intervention and control groups such that three offices were in intervention group and the rest were in control group. Forty employees were randomly selected from each group intervention and control and asked to complete survey questionnaires before, three, and six months after the educational intervention based on transtheoretical model. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 19. Sample t-test, repeated measure analysis and Wilcoxon tests were used to analyze the data.
Stages of change of physical activity in the intervention group changed significantly three (P