Sentence examples for changes in readiness from inspiring English sources

We assessed the outcomes changes in readiness, importance, and confidence between pre- and immediate post-visit assessments.

We were also able to describe changes in readiness, importance or confidence and drinking over a 6 month period.

These changes in readiness are seen as short term goals on the way to decreased consumption [ 7, 8].

We identified few predictors of changes in "readiness to change" and none that were consistent across measures or time.

Analysis of objective one, secondary outcomes: Changes in readiness stages and smoking cessation will be compared between arms using chi-square tests.

Not having a partner was a positive predictor of immediate changes in readiness but a negative predictor of improvement in two measures 6 months later.

We used Wilcoxon signed rank tests to assess changes in intervention facility readiness scores from baseline to 12 months and the Pearson correlation coefficients with Fisher's z transformation to test for correlations between changes in facility readiness scores and changes in health center funding over a 12-month period.

We did not report on changes in facility readiness among reference facilities over the same time period for two reasons: 1) reference facilities had already achieved a high level of readiness through intensive support prior to the intervention (Table 1), and 2) the investments made at reference facilities were much higher than at intervention facilities (Fig. 1).

Being white was a negative predictor of change in readiness (white versus other: -1.41, p = 0.002).

Also, the interpretation of a 6 month change in readiness on a continuous scale for someone who continues to drink risky amounts is difficult, since it not clear how one would interpret a change in some number of points.

A discussion between the physician and the subject about alcohol predicted a positive change in readiness immediately after the visit (confirmed by the RTCQ), but paradoxically, was associated with less improvement in drinking or importance (but no change in VAS- or RTCQ-measured readiness).