Efficacy of exercise physiologist counselling in primary care patients: a RCT of two pragmatic approaches

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/631062

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Physical activity is one of the most powerful contributors to health, but population levels of activity are low. General practitioners (GPs) are well placed to provide physical activity counselling, but many are too busy. This project examines the effectiveness of referral of insufficiently active adults to an exercise physiologist (EP), using step counts from a pedometer as the outcome. We compare usual care from the GP with: (1) 5 EP visits, and (2) a single visit and telephone follow up.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2015

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $940,925.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Health Promotion

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Cancer | Community based trial | Exercise physiologists | General practice setting | Heart disease | Obestity- intervention PGP4 | Physical activity | Physical activity promotion | Primary health care | Sedentary behaviour

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