Mechanisms in Multiple Risk Factor Interventions: Smoking, Physical-Activity, and Dietary-Fat Intake Among Manufacturing Workers

The results suggest that smokers are a particularly important target for health promotion interventions, and it may be possible to make initial contact with them through other health programs at the worksite, as well as mediators such as motivation for change.

Abstract

The results suggest that there are important mediating mechanisms both within and among workers with one or more risk factors. Smokers are a particularly important target for health promotion interventions, and it may be possible to make initial contact with them through other health programs at the worksite. The role of other lifestyle changes as a gateway to smoking cessation has not yet been explored, but may have potential for reaching smokers who are very low in their motivational readiness to change. The implications of these findings for research and the design of multiple risk factor interventions are discussed.