Physical Exercise in People with Chronic Kidney Disease—Practices and Perception of the Knowledge of Health Professionals and Physical Activity and Sport Science Professionals about Their Prescription

Víctor Martínez-Majolero, Belén Urosa and Sonsoles Hernández-Sánchez
Additional contact information
Víctor Martínez-Majolero: Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Belén Urosa: Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Sonsoles Hernández-Sánchez: Faculty of Sports Sciences, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: There is evidence on the need to include physical exercise as a treatment for diseases. A large number of professionals are involved in this, but it is not known how physical exercise is prescribed and which professionals are involved. This research has two objectives: (a) to find out the current practices in Spain regarding the prescription of physical exercise in patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and (b) to analyse the perception that different health and physical activity professionals have of their knowledge to prescribe of physical exercise in the treatment of CKD. This is an empirical research with an ex post facto retrospective analysis of the information in a descriptive and correlational way. A total of 692 health and sports professionals participated. A questionnaire validated by a committee of experts was administered. Descriptive analyses were carried out and the differences in the study variables were analysed using Chi-square tests and one-factor Analysis of Variance. From the results obtained, we conclude there is a need to develop specific training programmes in the field of physical exercise for health professionals, as well as the establishment of multiprofessional teams for the prescription of physical exercise in CKD treatment, including physical exercise professionals (Cafyde).

Keywords: chronic kidney disease; physical exercise; health professionals; cafyde; prescription (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/2/656/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/2/656/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:2:p:656-:d:719507

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().