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Exercise on prescription: a randomized study on the effect of counseling vs counseling and supervised exercise
Author(s) -
Sørensen J. B.,
Kragstrup J.,
Skovgaard T.,
Puggaard L.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.575
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1600-0838
pISSN - 0905-7188
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2008.00811.x
Subject(s) - medicine , physical therapy , randomized controlled trial , intensive care , medical prescription , danish , intervention (counseling) , clinical trial , intensive care medicine , nursing , linguistics , philosophy
The aim of this study was to compare short‐ (0–4 months) and long‐term (0–10 months) effects of high‐intensive Exercise on Prescription (EoP) intervention (counseling and supervised exercise) implemented in primary healthcare in a number of Danish counties with a low‐intensive intervention (counseling) using maximal oxygen uptake (VO 2max ) as the primary outcome. The study was conducted as a randomized trial in 2005–2006 with a high and a low‐intensive group. All the patients referred to the EoP scheme by their GP in the counties of Vejle and Ribe, Denmark, were eligible for the trial. The high‐intensive EoP group received 4 months of group‐based supervised training and attended five motivational counseling sessions. The low‐intensive group only attended four motivational counseling sessions. Three hundred and twenty‐seven patients entered the EoP scheme, and 52 (16%) volunteered for the randomized trial. No short‐ or long‐term differences were found between the high and the low‐intensive groups for VO 2max (short‐term 95% CI −1.1; 4.4 mL O 2 /(kg min), long‐term 95% CI −1.6 to 2.1). The present study did not demonstrate any significant clinical outcome for the high‐intensive EoP intervention as opposed to the low‐intensive intervention.