Set out in July 2011 by the Chief Medical Office, national guidelines recommend that adults aged between 19 and 64 undertake 75 minutes of intense activity or 150 minutes of moderate physical activity a week. Participants were asked six multiple choice questions, ranging from whether they were familiar with the national guidelines on physical activity to selecting medical conditions around which they would discuss physical activity with a patient. Doctors’ familiarity with questionnaires used to gauge patients’ activity levels was similarly hit-and-miss. More than half of doctors said they had not had any training about encouraging patients to undertake physical activity. The authors say physical activity needs a greater emphasis during medical training, while more needs to be done to increase GPs’ awareness of training initiatives.

Source: The Guardian August 15, 2017 05:03 UTC