Hindawi Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2021, Article ID 5584561, 7 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5584561 Research Article Assessment of Risk Factors of Noncommunicable Diseases among Semiurban Population of Kavre District, Nepal Punjita Timalsina 1 and Regina Singh 2 1Maharajgunj Nursing Campus, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal 2School of Nursing, Kathmandu Medical College Affiliated to Kathmandu University, Duwakot, Bhaktapur 44800, Nepal Correspondence should be addressed to Punjita Timalsina;
[email protected] Received 18 January 2021; Revised 19 April 2021; Accepted 31 May 2021; Published 8 June 2021 Academic Editor: Marco Dettori Copyright © 2021 Punjita Timalsina and Regina Singh. *is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are posing a great threat to mankind. Timely identification, prevention, and control of common risk factors help to reduce the burden of death from NCDs. *ese risk factors are also closely related to lifestyle changes. *is study aimed to assess the prevalence of risk factors of NCDs among semiurban population of Kavre district. Community- based cross-sectional study design using the multistage sampling method was used to select 456 respondents. Data were collected using WHO’s STEPS instruments 1 and 2. Four behavioural risk factors, i.e., current tobacco use, harmful alcohol use, physical inactivity, and inadequate servings of fruits and vegetables and two metabolic risk factors, i.e., abdominal obesity and hyper- tension were included in the study.