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Purpose: To understand beliefs, thoughts, attitudes, and experiences related to physical activity during hospital stay in patients and health care providers.

Methods: A qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological study examined the common meaning and lived experiences of patients and health care providers related to inpatient physical activity. Data from semi-structured interviews were analysed using qualitative content analysis.

Results: A total of 42 participants (18 patients and 24 health care providers) were interviewed. Patients and health care providers described physical activity as a purposeful activity to achieve a goal. In contrast, they talked about physical and mental rest to balance inpatient physical activity. Furthermore, the hospital environment was felt to discourage patients to be physically active with care centred around the hospital beds, frequent disturbances of rest on hospital rooms, and dependency of …