Exposure to Messages on Risk Factors for Noncommunicable Diseases in a Rural Province of Vietnam

Table 4

Number of information sources and times that people were exposed to NCD information in past month by four lifestyle risk factors.

Number of information source and times	Smoking (n = 1455)		Drinking (n = 1486)		Diet (n = 1277)		Inactivity (n=1138)
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
One source	808	55.5	798	53.7	794	62.2	718	63.1
Two sources	424	29.1	471	31.7	341	26.7	309	27.2
Three sources	153	10.5	157	10.6	105	8.2	82	7.2
Four sources	53	3.6	42	2.8	27	2.1	21	1.8
At least five sources	19	0.9	17	1.0	9	0.8	5	0.5
	Mean	SD	mean	SD	mean	SD	mean	SD
Number of times exposed to information in last month	3.3	4.5	3.0	4.0	2.7	3.8	2.7	4.0

SD: Standard deviation