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Table 3 Description of datasets in relation to each measure before (baseline) and after the development work (follow-up)a

From: Developing physical activity counselling in primary care through participatory action approach

 

Baseline

Follow-up

Health professionals responding to the questionnaire, N (%) b

75 (53 %)

80 (57 %)

 Profession

  physician

18 (24)

13 (16)

  nurse

42 (56)

43 (54)

  physiotherapist

15 (20)

24 (30)

Years in the current working place, mean (SD)

11.3 (10.4)

11.2 (10.0)

Working in outpatient health servicesc

74 (99)

79 (99)

Patients per day, mean (SD)

9.0 (5.6)

12.7 (23.5)

Minutes per patient, mean (SD)

36.5 (18.3)

37.6 (18.7)

Patient visits on the record sheets, N

1008

1000

 By a professional group, N (%)

  physician

413 (41)

228 (23)

  nurse

417 (41)

633 (63)

  physiotherapist

178 (18)

139 (14)

 By a single employee, mean (SD)

9.1 (8.0)

9.1 (6.9)

  physician

11.0 (9.5)

10.0 (8.1)

  nurse

8.0 (6.6)

9.3 (6.5)

  physiotherapist

7.0 (6.1)

7.2 (6.1)

Health professionals completing the record sheet on patients visitsd

N = 112 (79 %)

N = 89 (63 %)

 physician

35 (31)

17 (19)

 nurse

51 (46)

54 (61)

 physiotherapist

26 (23)

18 (20)

Patients responding to the questionnairee

N = 441 (44 %)

N = 431 (43 %)

 Age, mean (SD)

54.1 (17.8)

58.6 (17.3)

 Sex

  female

286 (65)

280 (65)

  male

153 (35)

148 (35)

 Professional visited

  physician

193 (44)

198 (46)

  nurse

152 (35)

135 (32)

  physiotherapist

81 (19)

87 (20)

  other

10 (2)

8 (2)

 Reason for the visit

  diagnostic examinations or treatment of a symptom, disease or injury

261 (60)

277 (64)

  preventive health examination

54 (12)

55 (13)

  birth control, maternity care

35 (8)

27 (6)

  other

85 (20)

71 (17)

First visit

152 (35)

128 (30)

Illness diagnosed by a physicianf

338 (83)

350 (87)

Moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity 1–2 hours a week and muscular strength training on at least 2 days a week.

137 (33)

146 (37)

External partners interviewed

N = 48

N = 28

Primary working place

 non-profit health or patient organization

8 (17)

6 (21)

 exercise and sports club

7 (15)

4 (14)

 public PA services

7 (15)

2 (7)

 private fitness centre

6 (12)

2 (7)

 adult education centre etc.

4 (8)

3 (11)

 other

16 (33)

11 (39)

Implements PA counselling in own work.

20 (42)

9 (32)

Reports that there is an agreement in the municipality about the coordination of health-enhancing PA.

24 (50)

18 (64)

Reports that there is an agreement in the municipality about sharing the responsibilities of health-enhancing PA.

15 (31)

8 (29)

  1. Numbers (N) and proportions (%) or means and standard deviations (SD)
  2. aIn the datasets of questionnaire to health professionals and external partner interview the follow-up measures were addressed not only to those responding at baseline but also to non-respondents. As a result, the persons responding at baseline and follow-up may have been slightly different. In the datasets concerning record sheets on patient visits and questionnaire to the patients it is likely that majority of the patients were different at the two time points
  3. bQuestionnaire to the health professionals was targeted to physicians, nurses and physiotherapists, n = 141 at baseline and follow-up
  4. cMultiple responses were allowed. If at least one of the responses was maternity or child health care, school or student health care, occupational health care, consultations for special groups, it indicated working in outpatient health services
  5. dThe record sheet on all non-emergency patient visits was delivered to physicians, nurses and physiotherapists (n = 141) to be kept for 5 days or until records on 15 patients had been completed
  6. eThe percentage has been calculated from the total number of patient visits recorded, which was 1008 at baseline and 1000 at follow-up
  7. fCoronary artery disease, hypertension, claudication, other cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol, overweight, asthma, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, lower limb osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory joint disease, chronic or frequent low back pain, chronic or frequent neck-shoulder pain, osteoporosis or related fractures, low state of mood or depression, sleeping disorders, breast cancer, colon cancer
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