Table 2.

Distribution of nurses according to TTM stages of readiness to change for adopting correct body posture in the before and one-month and six-months after educational intervention in the intervention (n=42) and the control group (n=40)

	Pre-intervention		One-month after intervention		Six-months after intervention
	Intervention group	Control group	Intervention group	Control group	Intervention group	Control group
Precontemplation	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	1 (2.5)	0 (0.0)	3 (7.5)
Contemplation	19 (45.2)	21 (52.5)	1 (2.4)	24 (60)	1 (2.4)	27 (67.5)
preparation	23 (54.8)	19 (47.5)	15 (35.7)	15 (37.5)	20 (47.6)	6 (15)
Action	(0.0) 0	0 (0.0)	26 (61.9) *†	0 (0.0)	21 (50) *†	4 (10)
Maintenance	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)

1. Result of Mann Whitney U-test;

^*P < 0.05 compared to the control group;

2. Result of Friedman test;

^†P < 0.05 compared to pre-intervention values;

3. +Stages with 0 cells did not include in the analysis;