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. 1992 Sep:38:2003-10.

Family Physicians and Exercise Counseling: Can they be influenced to provide more?

D M Wilson, D Ciliska, J Singer, K Williams, J Alleyne, E Lindsay

Family Physicians and Exercise Counseling: Can they be influenced to provide more?

D M Wilson et al. Can Fam Physician. 1992 Sep.

Abstract

This trial took 22 volunteer family physicians and randomly exposed some to training intervention and some to no training to study the effect on frequency and quality of exercise prescription to ambulatory adults. During the 6 weeks after training, the trained physicians addressed the issue of exercise with 35.3% of patients. The untrained physicians discussed exercise with only 8.6% of their patients.

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