Table 2.

Pre- and post-intervention changes in the stages of change for fat consumption according to pseudo-maintenance classification

Movement in stages	PMa – no		PMa – yes		p value
	n	Percent	n	Percent
Usual care group
Progressionb	7	43.8	9	64.3	0.516c
No changed	3	18.7	2	14.3
Regressione	6	37.5	3	21.4
Transtheoretical Model-intervention group
Progressionb	4	19.0	11	57.9	0.031c
No changed	10	47.6	6	31.6
Regressione	7	33.3	2	10.5

^a PM pseudo-maintenance; ^bProgression: participants at baseline who progressed to “upper” stages of change at post-intervention; ^cPearson χ ² test; ^dNo change: participants at baseline who were in the same stage of change post-intervention; ^eRegression: participants at baseline who regressed to “lower” stages of change post-intervention