TY - JOUR AU - Liangchawengwong, Sunthara AU - Pothiban, Linchong AU - Panuthai, Sirirat AU - Boonchuang, Pikul PY - 2013/08/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Prevalence, Stages of Change for Lifestyle-Related Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Influencing Factors of Physical Activity among Thai Young Adults JF - Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research JA - PRIJNR VL - 17 IS - 3 SE - Original paper DO - UR - https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/PRIJNR/article/view/11187 SP - 217-233 AB - <p>This descriptive correlational design aimed to investigate the prevalence and&nbsp;stages of change of lifestyle-related cardiovascular risk factors, test associations and the ability to predict change transition of the Transtheoretical model constructs for physical&nbsp;activity among Thai young adults. Multistage proportion cluster sampling method was&nbsp;employed to obtain 1,124 first-to fourth-year students of eight government universities<br>in Thailand. Data were collected by six instruments, and analyzed using descriptive&nbsp;statistics, Pearson χ2 – test, MANOVA, and the multinomial logistic regression.&nbsp;The results revealed that participants had a high prevalence of physical inactivity&nbsp;(81.49%), unhealthy dietary habits (58.62%), sedentary lifestyle (57.29%), alcohol&nbsp;consumption (41.01%), stressful lifestyle (26.78%), and cigarette smoking (9.34%).&nbsp;Most reported being inactive in most of all lifestyle-related cardiovascular risk factors. A similar&nbsp;distribution of the stages of change was apparent both genders, and the first-to fourth-year&nbsp;students. Stages of lifestyle-related cardiovascular risk factors change were correlated with&nbsp;stages of physical activity change (p&lt;0.001). The Transtheoretical Model constructs;&nbsp;Self-efficacy, pros, cons, and processes of change were correlated with stages of change&nbsp;of physical activity. Only, cons was the highest affected of all the stages of physical&nbsp;activity change. These results suggest that young adults should be the prioritized group&nbsp;for working to prevent cardiovascular disease, especially by health-promoting nurses,&nbsp;and health professionals and educators.</p> ER -