ArticleAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine2016
The Evidence in Support of Physicians and Health Care Providers as Physical Activity Role Models.
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- Physical activity promotion for patients transitioning to dialysis using the "Exercise is Medicine" framework: a multi-center randomized pragmatic trial (EIM-CKD trial) protocol.BMC nephrology · 2018Trial
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- Assessing Physicians' Knowledge, Attitudes, Intentions, Abilities, and Behaviour Toward Physical Activity and Exercise in Non-Communicable Diseases: Questionnaire Development Using an e-Delphi and Cross-Sectional Design.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Physicians' opinions on barriers to patient counseling on physical activity in primary care: focus on physicians' healthy exercise habits and knowledge about physical activity.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Physical inactivity constitutes the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Health care providers (HCPs) should play a key role in counseling and appropriately referring their patients to adopt physical activity (PA). Previous reports suggest that active HCPs are more likely to provide better, more credible, and motivating preventive counseling to their patients. This review summarizes the available evidence on the association between HCPs' personal PA habits and their related PA counseling practices. Based on relevant studies, a snowball search strategy identified, out of 196 studies screened, a total of 47 pertinent articles published between 1979 and 2012. Of those, 23 described HCPs' PA habits and/or their counseling practices and 24 analytic studies evaluated the association between HCPs' personal PA habits and their PA counseling practices. The majority of studies came from the United States (n = 33), and 9 studies included nonphysicians (nurses, pharmacists, and other HCPs). PA levels were mostly self-reported, and counseling was typically assessed as self-reported frequency or perceived self-efficacy in clinical practice. Most (19 out of 24) analytic studies reported a significant positive association between HCPs' PA habits and counseling frequency, with odds ratios ranging between 1.4 and 5.7 (
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