Exercise as medicine: Providing practitioner guidance on exercise prescription
| Autor: | Jane Blood-Siegfried, Jamie Kyei-Frimpong, Ruvini Wijetilaka, Abigail Gendler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Physical activity Epidemiology business.industry Large effect size Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Regular Article 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Primary care Exercise prescription 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Exercise is medicine Physical therapy Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine business Pre and post |
| Zdroj: | Preventive Medicine Reports Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol 22, Iss, Pp 101323-(2021) |
| ISSN: | 2211-3355 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101323 |
| Popis: | Highlights • Practitioner education and documentation tools increases exercise prescription rates. • Educational programs should be correlated with change in clinical practice and outcomes. • Sustainability and generalizability should be assessed through larger and longer-term studies. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a practitioner education program (consisting of education on exercise guidelines and exercise prescription) on practitioner (i) confidence in prescribing exercise and (ii) rate of prescribing exercise. A pre-post study design was utilized. A two-session practitioner education and a toolbox of resources was developed and implemented in January 2020, targeting 12 eligible practitioners at a large primary care and functional medicine office in New York City. A three-question confidence survey was given pre and post. Fifty randomly selected charts were reviewed at baseline (pre), and 25 charts were reviewed monthly for 3 months (February – April 2020) post. There were significant increases and a large effect size in both confidence in prescribing exercise (30% to 89% [p = .020, Phi = 0.596]) and individualizing an exercise prescription between pre- and post-education sessions (20% to 78% [p = .023, Phi = 0.578]). There was also a sustained and significant increase (24% to 63% [p |
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