Physically active primary care doctors are more likely to offer exercise counselling to patients with cardiovascular diseases: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Multivariate regression between initiation of exercise counselling of chronic diseases with physical activity intensity and confounding factors

Initiation of exercise counselling for chronic diseases (‘Often initiates’ vs ‘Rarely initiates’)	Physical activity intensity and confounding factors	Odds Ratio	95% CI	p-value
Cardiovascular diseases	Physically Active vs Physically Inactive	2.758	1.518 – 5.012	0.001
	Age	0.980	0.861 – 1.116	0.761
	Gender (Male)	0.764	0.407 – 1.436	0.404
	BMI	1.350	0.776 – 2.349	0.288
	Smoking (No vs Yes)	11.488	1.031 – 127.986	0.047
	Hypertension	2.264	0.506 – 10.138	0.285
	Years Working	1.032	0.901 – 1.182	0.650
	Patients per day	0.987	0.975 – 1.000	0.042
Hypertension	Physically Active vs Physically Inactive	2.205	0.941 – 5.167	0.069
	Age	0.982	0.835 – 1.155	0.826
	Years Working	0.974	0.793 – 1.196	0.803
	Years in Primary Care	1.084	0.953 – 1.233	0.220
	Highest Qualification	2.806	1.110 – 7.092	0.029
	Patients per Day	0.993	0.976 – 1.010	0.411
Type 2 diabetes mellitus	Physically Active vs Physically Inactive	1.487	0.561—3.940	0.425
	Years Working	1.014	0.955 – 1.077	0.644
	Highest Qualification	2.057	0.734 – 5.768	0.170
	Patients per day	0.980	0.963 – 0.998	0.027
Obesity/ metabolic syndrome	Physically Active vs Physically Inactive	2.556	0.646 – 10.110	0.181
	Having hypertension	0.267	0.042 – 1.708	0.163
	Having dyslipidaemia	0.461	0.094 – 2.265	0.341
Dyslipidaemia	BMI	2.036	0.731 – 5.673	0.174
Dyslipidaemia	Having dyslipidaemia	0.454	0.137 – 1.499	0.195

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