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Prevention of NCDs Through Screening and Educating Individuals on Health-risk Behaviours in the Community

NCT05790395 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 330

Last updated 2026-03-19

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Summary

Aim: to prevent NCDs by screening and educating individuals in the community on health-risk behaviours. Specifically, we will use a mobile health and a brief self-determination theory-based intervention in helping individual change their health-risk behaviours.

Hypotheses to be tested: compared with those in the control group, the participants in the intervention group will experience significantly greater success in modifying their health-risk behaviours and will have a better health-related quality of life at 12 months follow-up.

Objectives

1. To screen individuals for health-risk behaviours and identify risk factors that may contribute to NCDs
2. To educate individuals on the importance of engaging in healthy lifestyles
3. To develop a training programme - "Train the Trainers' Toolkit", with the goal to train student nurses (Years 2 to 5) as health ambassadors to implement the project on a long-term basis.

Conditions

  • Health-risk Behaviours
  • Non Communicable Diseases

Interventions

OTHER

Theory of planned behaviour, foot-in-the-door technique, and self-determination theory intervention

The participants will also be asked to choose the goal that they consider easiest to achieve and encouraged to quit health-risk behaviours. The research assistant will assist in achieving the participant's health-related goals by sending WhatsApp/WeChat messages or via telephone calls once per week for the first 6 months.

OTHER

health-risk behaviors

The participants will be simply advised to modify their health-risk behaviours and/or adopt a healthy lifestyle practice. The participants will also receive follow-up for outcome assessments with the same schedule as those in the intervention group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ho Cheung William Li, PhD · Chinese University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-07-13
Primary Completion
2025-03-31
Completion
2025-03-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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