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

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

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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

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  • Charlotte Lanhers & Martine Duclos & Aline Guttmann & Emmanuel Coudeyre & Bruno Pereira & Lemlih Ouchchane, 2015. "General Practitioners’ Barriers to Prescribe Physical Activity: The Dark Side of the Cluster Effects on the Physical Activity of Their Type 2 Diabetes Patients," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(10), pages 1-12, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0140429
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140429
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