Background: Recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) advise all adults to accumulate at
least 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity on most, if not all, days of the week,
but many US adults engage in no leisure-time physical activity. Since primary care providers
can play an important role in exercise counseling and prescription, we wanted to assess the
proportion of primary care physicians from four hospitals who asked about exercise habits …

Despite the value of physical activity and exercise to patients, little is known about the
perception and practices of Jordanian primary care physicians (PCPs) regarding counseling
patients about exercise. This study was aimed at assessing counseling about exercise by
PCPs in Jordan. A cross-sectional study targeting a random sample of physicians from
family medicine, internal medicine and general practice in academic, public, and private
sectors. Chi-square test of independence was used to assess the association of perceptions …