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Regular physical activity ( PA) plays an important role in the primary and secondary prevention of several chronic diseases, e.g., cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, obesity, depression and osteoporosis (WHO 2010, ACSM 2009). Here the healthcare setting has been recognized as an appropriate and promising venue for counseling and prescribing physical activity (Jacobson et al; 2005). Methods and materials: A cross-sectional survey design was used to assess healthcare professionals’ physical activity counseling and prescription practice for non-communicable diseases in hospital setting. The sample hospitals were selected randomly based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The sample size was determined by using the formula for estimating a single population proportion. Results: A total of 442 healthcare professionals from 7 government hospitals in Addis Ababa city were participated in the study. From these hospitals 387 healthcare professionals (physicians=135,34.9%, nurses= 218,56.3% and physiotherapist=34,8.8%) were completed the questionnaire. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) reported that, they very frequently ask patients about their physical activity level (8.8%), assess patients' fitness as part of a physical exam or through a fitness test (2.3%), Refer patients to other professionals for fitness assessment or appraisal (5.2 %), Provide patients with verbal directions for a physical activity program (21.4 %), provide patients with written directions for a physical activity program (5.4 %), counsel PA for the purpose of preventing chronic diseases (9.2 %) and Counsel PA for the purpose of treating chronic diseases (5.5 %). Personal PA level was positively and significantly correlated with PA prescription/counseling practices (rs = .17, p = .00). There were a significant difference among the three groups of HCPs ( χ 2 = 147.85, df = 2, p = .000). Conclusion: Healthcare professionals' PA prescription/counseling rates was low in hospital setting. The need for improved implementation and establish strategies to increases HCPs' practice of PA prescription/counseling in hospital setting.

Physical Activity Prescription for Non-Communicable Diseases: Practices of Healthcare Professionals in Hospital Setting, Ethiopia.