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| Prevalence and correlates of physician recommendations to exercise among older adults | | Author(s) | Teresa M Damush, Anita L Stewart, Kris M Mills |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 54A, no 8, August 1999 |
| Pages | pp M423-427 |
| Keywords | Exercise ; Preventative medicine ; General practice ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The extent to which older people have ever received recommendations from doctors to exercise is described, based on patients' self-reports. Telephone interviews were conducted with a random sample of members of Medicare health maintenance organisations (HMOs) in North Carolina. Participants were 893 community-dwelling older people, of whom 63% were women, 52% married, and 12% in a minority group. Mean years of education was 14.8 (±2.6) and average age 74.9 (±6.5). The associations between patient self-reports of ever receiving physician recommendations to exercise and the following variables were assessed: demographics, health-related quality of life, medical conditions, health/risk behaviours, and health knowledge, interests or satisfaction. 48.2% had received a suggestion from their GP to exercise. Being younger, sedentary and having a higher body mass index (BMI) were independently and positively associated with having received such advice. Those who were precontemplators (not thinking about changing physical activity behaviour) and those who reported greater frequency of endurance exercise were less likely to have received recommendation to exercise. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991220239 A |
| Classmark | CEA: LK2: L5: 3F: 7T |
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