- Title
- Intention to change multiple health risk behaviors and predictors of behavior change in vocational education students
- Creator
- Atorkey, Prince; Paul, Christine; Wiggers, John; Bonevski, Billie; Mitchell, Aimee; Tzelepis, Flora
- Relation
- NHMRC.APP1124462 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1124462 & APP1143269 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1143269
- Relation
- Journal of American College Health Vol. 72, Issue 4, p. 1135-1143
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2022.2068960
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- Objective: No studies have examined vocational education students’ intention to change multiple health risk behaviors and whether baseline characteristics predict behavior change. Participants: Paticipants were vocational education students in New South Wales, Australia. Methods: Students in the no-intervention control arm of a cluster randomized controlled trial completed an online survey at baseline and 6 months later. Results: Of 450 participants (83.3%) who reported multiple health risk behaviors at baseline, one-third (33.1%) intended to change at least two risk behaviors within 6 months. Participants experiencing symptoms of anxiety [OR = 7.43, 95% CIs 1.26–43.87; p = 0.03] and who intended to change three to four risk behaviors [OR = 23.30, 95% CIs 4.01–135.40; p = 0.001] rather than one behavior had significantly greater odds of changing at least one behavior in 6 months. Conclusions: Interventions could support vocational education students to change behaviors they wish to as well as motivate them to address other risk behaviors.
- Subject
- intention to change; multiple health risk behaviors; vocational education students; health behavior
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1505723
- Identifier
- uon:55719
- Identifier
- ISSN:0744-8481
- Language
- eng
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