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Table 4 General wellbeing and lifestyle attitudes in the pre-intervention and post-intervention periods (‘pre’, pre-intervention survey; ‘post’, post-intervention survey)

From: Investigating the feasibility and acceptability of using Instagram to engage post-graduate students in a mass communication social media-based health intervention, #WeeStepsToHealth

  

See a dentist at least once a year?

Have a doctors’ check-up once a year?

Know about your body and how it works?

Have a good night’s sleep?

Eat a healthy diet?

Be a non-smoker?

Have a good/body figure?

  

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Not important

n (%)

5 (11.9)

3 (7.7)

8 (19.1)

7 (18.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (2.6)

1 (2.4)

2 (5.1)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (2.4)

0 (0.0)

2 (4.8)

2 (5.1)

Of average importance

n (%)

14 (33.3)

12 (30.8)

15 (35.7)

12 (30.8)

10 (23.8)

8 (20.5)

7 (16.7)

4 (10.3)

12 (28.6)

5 (12.8)

3 (7.1)

7 (18.0)

14 (33.3)

18 (46.2)

Very important

n (%)

23 (54.8)

24 (61.5)

19 (45.2)

30 (51.3)

32 (76.2)

30 (76.9)

34 (81.0)

33 (84.6)

30 (71.4)

34 (87.2)

38 (90.5)

32 (82.1)

26 (61.9)

19 (48.7)

  

Exercise regularly?

Not be fat?

Have friends?

Not be stressed or worried?

Not drink alcohol or drink only a little?

Know about fitness and how to stay fit?

  
  

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

Pre

Post

  

Not important

n (%)

0 (0.0)

1 (2.6)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

10 (23.8)

10 (25.6)

3 (7.1)

0 (0.0)

  

Of average importance

n (%)

17 (40.5)

10 (25.6)

10 (23.8)

13 (33.3)

3 (7.1)

3 (7.7)

5 (11.9)

10 (25.6)

24 (57.1)

17 (43.6)

13 (31.0)

17 (43.6)

  

Very important

n (%)

25 (59.5)

28 (71.8)

32 (76.2)

26 (66.7)

39 (92.9)

36 (92.3)

37 (88.1)

29 (74.4)

8 (19.1)

12 (30.8)

26 (61.9)

22 (56.4)