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Five Basic ‘Stages of Change’, Stage or Stages means the following five distinct stages of change which doctors' patients pass through when initiating behavioural change, as -

A.        explained on Department of Health and Ageing website titled Lifestyle Prescriptions - Lifescripts and summarised in Annexure C(ii)(e): 

  1.          Uninterested, unaware or unwilling to make a change (pre-contemplation).
  2.          Consider a change (contemplation).

  3.          Decide and prepare to make a change (determination/preparation)
  4.          Implement genuine, determined action (action)
  5.          Over time, attempts to maintain the new behaviour occur (maintenance); and

B.        set out in the below diagram:

Read "A 'Stages of Change' Approach to Helping Patients Change Behavior" by Zimmerman/Olsen/Bosworth of Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio of March 2000, which also covers two tools, the 'Readiness to Change Ruler' and the 'Agenda-Setting Chart', used to promote discussion.