Exercise as medicine: Providing practitioner guidance on exercise prescription.

ABSTRACT: 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 pres

SUBMITTER: Kyei-Frimpong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7895835 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature