Using intervention mapping to develop a tailored health education program based on stages of change to prevent osteoporosis

Intervention mapping provides an explicit theory and data driven guide for intervention development. The intervention program evaluated through a randomized controlled trial design, on 116 women aged 40-65, based on Intervention Map to increase consumption of calcium rich foods to prevent osteoporosis. Osteoporosis knowledge and stages of change of calcium intake were as the effect variables and frequency of calcium rich foods consumption was as the outcome variable of the intervention. The findings revealed that intervention was effective in increasing the participants’ knowledge of osteoporosis and calcium intake in trial group. Perhaps the Intervention mapping can be used as a theoretical framework to design efficient and effective tailored health interventions.