General Practitioners’ Barriers to Prescribe Physical Activity: The Dark Side of the Cluster Effects on the Physical Activity of Their Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Charlotte Lanhers, Martine Duclos, Aline Guttmann, Emmanuel Coudeyre, Bruno Pereira and Lemlih Ouchchane

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-12

Abstract: Aims/hypothesis: To describe barriers to physical activity (PA) in type 2 diabetes patients and their general practitioners (GPs), looking for practitioner’s influence on PA practice of their patients. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study on GPs (n = 48) and their type 2 diabetes patients (n = 369) measuring respectively barriers to prescribe and practice PA using a self-assessment questionnaire: barriers to physical activity in diabetes (BAPAD). Statistical analysis was performed accounting hierarchical data structure. Similar practitioner’s patients were considered a cluster sharing common patterns. Results: The higher the patient’s BAPAD score, the higher the barriers to PA, the higher the risk to declare practicing no PA (p

Date: 2015
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