PEPAF: Evaluation of Family Physician's Effectiveness for Physical Activity Promotion

"General practitioner's (GP) physical activity (PA) assessment and advise using a web-based software that prompted open questions to elicit believes about benefits of PA, graphical information about risks of inactivity and examples of type sentences to provide medical advise.~Educational materials summarizing benefits, risks and motivation.~Prescription: 15 minutes educational session in which GP negotiated a goal, addressed possible barriers and anticipated solutions using web-based tools for lack of time, community resources, and health problems. Finally, they designed a 3-month PA activity plan that derived in a standardized printed prescription of frequency, duration, intensity and progression of a selected PA or exercise that included a self-monitoring log."

Control general practitioners assessed physical activity and performed recruitment in a similar way but offered usual care