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Two major factors that have been found to affect a person's readiness to
change are "importance" and "self efficacy". Importance is determined by
what value a person places on making the change. Self efficacy is a
person's belief or confidence in their ability to succeed at making the
change. Depending on the health scenario, people may exhibit different
levels of importance and self efficacy (Rollnick et al., 1999).
A person who is overweight may be convinced of the importance of
losing weight but have a low level of confidence based on previous
failure to lose weight or keep weight off. A person who is newly
diagnosed with hypertension may be confident that they can take a pill
to lower blood pressure but are not convinced of the importance of this
action. A deficiency in either importance or self efficacy can lead to a
person's unwillingness to commit to change.
The Readiness-to-Change Ruler is used to assess a person's willingness
or readiness to change, determine where they are on the continuum
between "not prepared to change" and "already changing", and promote
identification and discussion of perceived barriers to change.
The Readiness-to-Change Ruler can be used as a quick assessment of a
person's present motivational state relative to changing a specific
behavior, and can serve as the basis for motivation-based interventions
to elicit behavior change, such as motivational interviewing.
Source: Copyright � 2006 American Society on Aging and American
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