Stages of Change: correlation between two forms of evaluation

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Adriana Carvalho dos
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Enéas, Maria Leonor Espinosa, Yoshida, Elisa Medici Pizão
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/4675
• topic: motivation; therapeutic change; scales; validation study; training clinics; motivación; cambio terapeutico; escalas; estúdio de validación; clinica-escuela; motivação; mudança terapêutica; escalas; estudo de validação; clínica-escola.

The concept of stages of change helps to identify how aware one is about his or her challenge and how confident to facing it. There are six stages: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance and termination. This study aims to verify the correlation between two ways of evaluate them: the Stage of Change Scale (SCS), a self-report instrument, and a clinical interview. It was hypothesized that a high degree of correlation between them would suggest they measure the same construct. The SCS was applied before a clinical interview with 30 adults, who authorized the audio recording in a training clinic. The interviews were transcribed and evaluated by two judges who obtained the agreement of 0.80. Results pointed to a statistically significant but moderate correlation between both measures (rs=0,40, p<0,05). Initial results suggest that the management of the interviews may interfere with the identification of stages of change by clinical interview.