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Abstract
The purpose of this research was to assess the risk of T2DM among medical students at Minia University and determine the prevalence of T2DM risk variables among them. To assess the impact of a stage-matched health education intervention on students’ transition through stages of change among students with increased risk or low levels of physical activity. To ascertain the association between the physical activity stage of change and the TTM concept.
Methodology: from January 2020 to September 2022, 280 fourth-year medical students from Minia University participated in this quasi-experimental research.
An Arabic self-administered questionnaire that had been previously created was used to gather information on demographic and socioeconomic factors, dietary habits, the FIDRISC, the IPAQ short form, and the TTM construct of physical activity. The researcher gathered anthropometric measures.
Three instructional sessions were given to the intervention’s involved students. Activities for the interventional program were designed based on the TTM stage of change. To evaluate the students’ stage transition in terms of physical activity following the intervention, an online Arabic questionnaire was issued through their Facebook group and telegram channel.
Results
The study’s key results showed that: About 38% of pupils had a high risk of developing diabetes. Additionally, a significant proportion of both men and women had high BMIs and had abdominal obesity. Medical students were found to have poor eating habits, including skipping meals, consuming fast food, and getting too few daily servings of fruits and vegetables.
Furthermore, students had a high rate of physical inactivity (468%) and women had a much lower level of physical activity than men.
The majority of students (86%) were in the pre-action phases of physical activity at the time of the first evaluation, with a significant difference between males and girls as the proportion of males in the action stages was greater than that of females. The TTM-based physical activity intervention program, however, was successful as pupils’ stage transitions from pre-action to action differed significantly.
Recommendations:
Screening for risk of diabetes and interventional program targeting students` risky lifestyle behaviors should be of a particular importance. The TTM-based physical activity intervention program in crucial as most students not only physical inactive but also don`t have intention to change their behavior so it should be used to guide behavioral change program on a large scale among university students.