Keywords
How to Cite
Abstract
Objective: To identify habits and physical activity recommendations in family medicine residents of Bogota. Methodology: Cross-sectional study with application of the survey Healthy Doctor = Healthy Patient and using questions from Doctor Characteristics and of clinical practice from Exercise is Medicine® in professionals in training in family medicine in five universities of Bogotá. Results: The total number of participants was 97 residents. They reported vigorous, moderate, and mild physical activity. Conclusions: The results evidenced in this study and compared with international literature available (UK, USA, New Zealand, and Canada) show that there is convergence on the need to train primary care physicians with sufficient skills and knowledge for the proper and objective assessment and prescription of physical activity and structure a service model in which physical activity is included within the medical history.
Morishita Y, Miki A, Okada M, et al. Exercise counseling of primary care physicians in metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases is associated with their specialty and exercise habits. Int J Gen Med. 2014;7:277-83.
Duperly J. John Duperly. Medicina Interna [blog]. Disponible en: http://www.johnduperly.com.
Morton S, Denlse G. Effects of physical activity counseling in primary care. JAMA. 2001;286:677-87.
Bull F, Milton K. A process evaluation of a “physical activity pathway” in the primary care setting. BMC Public Health. 2010;10:1-9.
Allenspach E, Handschin M, Kutlar M, et al. Patient and physician acceptance of cam-paign approach to promoting physical activity: the “move for health” project. Swiss Med WKLY. 2007;137:292-9.
Centro Regional para América Latina. Exercise is medicine. s. l.: American College of Sports Medicine; 2014.
Frank E, Rothenberg R, Lewis C, et al. Correlates of physicians´ prevention – related practices. Arch Fam Med. 2009;9:1-9.
Duperly J, Lobelo F, Segura C, et al. The association between Colombian medical stu-dents´ healthy personal habits and a positive attitude toward preventive counseling: cross – sectional analyses. BMC Public Health. 2009;9(218):1-7.
Frank E, Breyan J, Elon L. Physician disclosure of healthy personal behaviors im-proves credibility and ability to motivate. Arch Fam Med. 2000;9:287-90.
Collazos V, Pierre V, Waak A, et al. recomendaciones mundiales sobre actividad física para la salud. Washington: OMS; 2010.
Frank E, Chair V, Chief D, et al. Medical Students’ self reported typical counseling practices are similar to those assessed with standardized patients. Med Gen Med. 2005;7:1-5.
Elley R, Kerse N, Arroll B, et al. Effectiveness of counseling patients on physical activ-ity in general practice: cluster randomized controlled trial. Br Med J. 2003;326:793.
This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.