Exercise promotion in physiotherapy: A qualitative study providing insights into German physiotherapists' practices and experiences

Physical Activity Promotion: A Systematic Review of The Perceptions of Healthcare Professionals

“…In another study, sport medicine physicians revealed that those who promoted PA by giving written PA prescriptions recorded better improvements in their patients PA levels [88]. In 14.8% (n = 4) of these studies, 73-93.4% of physiotherapists noted that they promoted PA by providing some form of written material [64,73,75,76]. In three different cross-sectional studies, respectively, 24% of physiotherapists [90] and 40% of GPs [67] indicated that they provided written materials to patients while some HCPs stated that giving out written materials was most feasible for them in the third study [92].…”

“…Appendix B provides legends for all the tables in the paper. Twelve (12) of the 34 studies in this review, explored the perceptions of HCPs practising in Europe [53,[63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73], 10 were conducted in Australia and New Zealand [31,51,69,[74][75][76][77][78][79][80], five each from the UK [52,[81][82][83][84] and USA [85][86][87][88][89], two from Africa [75,90], and one from India [91]. The study designs were varied with 20 of the 34 included studies employing a cross sectional design [31,[65][66][67][68][70][71][72][73][74]76,79,…”

“…The study designs were varied with 20 of the 34 included studies employing a cross sectional design [31,[65][66][67][68][70][71][72][73][74]76,79,[85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92], the majority of which sampled the opinions of HCPs about PA promotion using questionnaires, 11 studies were qualitative (using semi-structured interviews and focus groups) [52,53,64,69,77,78,[80][81][82][83][84] while longitudinal [51], mixed [75], and multi method [63] designs were employed in one study each. Across the 34 included studies, 20 explored the perceptions of a homogenous group of HCPs [51,64,[67][68][69][70]72,[74][75][76][77][78][79]…”

“…HCPs' perceptions about key determinants of effective PA promotion including: PA knowledge, confidence in PA promotion, PA importance, role in promoting PA, PA assessment, how they promoted PA and the barriers and facilitators to effective PA promotion were extracted from all the 34 studies. The majority of studies (n = 27), recorded the perceptions of HCPs on how PA was promoted [ [31,69,73,74,76,79,80,82,89,90,92]; nine on facilitators to promoting PA [52,63,64,68,71,78,81,83,85,89]; eight on their assessment of PA [53,73,74,83,86,88,90,91] and three on the effectiveness of promoting PA [74,89,90]. Each of these key determining factors to PA promotion are described in more detail below.…”

“…Table 3 contains a summary of HCPs' perceptions about the barriers and facilitators to PA promotion respectively. Over seventy six percent (76.5%; n = 26) of the studies included in this review examined participants' views about barriers to PA promotion [31,52,53,[63][64][65][67][68][69]71,73,[75][76][77][78][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][88][89][90]92] while only 26.5% (n = 9) of the studies examined participants' views about facilitators to PA promotion [52,63,64,68,71,78,81,83,89]. Based on the TDF domain classifications, the extracted barriers and facilitators were coded and categorized into themes.…”