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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2016 Feb 15;99(7):1162–1169. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2016.02.008

Table 1.

Target behavior coding.

Code Definition Examples
Nutrition Statements about, attitudes toward, or behaviors related to food or drink Teen: And I don’t eat like on time. You know, I don’t eat breakfast, my lunches are like when I get home from school it’s like four, I eat dinner around like ten, go to bed around like two, so I know it’s not healthym to do that either
Caregiver: I do eat a lot of junk food and I bring it in the house and I give it to her
Activity Statements about, attitudes toward, or behaviors related to activity, both physical and sedentary Teen: I’ll lay down, you know like that, or I’ll get on the computer or something like that. And I know I need to like I guess do something active or whatever
Caregiver: I think for our family, we have no motivation. We don’t like to sweat, we don’t like to be hot. We’re girly girls
Weight Statements about, attitudes toward, or behaviors related to weight, weight loss or weight gain Teen: Well I’ve been trying to lose weight but it really never [goes] anywhere
Caregiver: She’s so tall, so I figured maybe by the time she get[s] in high school, she, she will slim out