Assessing the impact of educational intervention based on a health belief model to modify cardiovascular disease risk factors among Egyptian University administrative staff: a quasi-experimental study

According to the WHO/ISH risk score, more than half of the individuals had a moderate to high risk of CVDs. The study demonstrated that administrative staff members' knowledge of CVDs behavioral risk factors was successfully increased by a brief HBM-based educational program. All HBM domain scores showed a significant increase, except for "preventive behavior" domain score, after three months; however, after six and nine months, there was a small decline.