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Prevalence of Multiple Risk Behaviours and Its Association With Health Consequence

NCT04961073 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 5737

Last updated 2022-01-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Hong Kong is facing an increasing threat of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which is compounded by population aging. In 2016, 25,771 registered deaths (approximately 55%) were attributed to NCDs. In addition, NCDs caused 104,600 potential years of life lost before 70 years of age. WHO has identified four major behavioral risk factors - tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, an unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity - that contribute substantially to NCDs and can increase the risk of death. Most premature deaths from NCDs are preventable via lifestyle modification. Therefore, helping people adopting healthy lifestyle practices, such as having a balanced diet and engaging in irregular physical activity, and quitting health-risk behaviors, such as smoking and harmful use of alcohol can help prevent NCDs and improve the quality of life and overall health of the population. However, many people are unmotivated or find it difficult to modify their risk behaviors, despite their awareness of the associated health hazards.

Conditions

  • Non-communicable Diseases

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ho Cheung William Li, PhD · School of Nursing, the University of Hong Kong

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-06-21
Primary Completion
2021-08-31
Completion
2021-08-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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