Advising people to take more exercise is ineffective: a randomized controlled trial of physical activity promotion in primary care | Zendy

Melvyn Hillsdon | Zendy; Margaret Thorogood | Zendy; Ian R. White | Zendy; Charlie Foster | Zendy

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Advising people to take more exercise is ineffective: a randomized controlled trial of physical activity promotion in primary care

Author(s) -

Melvyn Hillsdon,

Margaret Thorogood,

Ian R. White,

Charlie Foster

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/31.4.808

Subject(s) - randomized controlled trial , primary care , physical activity , promotion (chess) , medicine , physical therapy , health promotion , alternative medicine , gerontology , family medicine , nursing , public health , political science , politics , law , pathology

Over the last 10 years 'exercise referral schemes' have been popular even though the evidence for effectiveness of any one-to-one intervention in primary care is deficient. We report the results of a primary care based one-to-one intervention that compared the effect of two communication styles with a no-intervention control group on self-reported physical activity at 12 months.

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