Table 2.

Patient Perceptions of Physical Activity, Physician Behaviors, and Health Status

	Control		Intervention		MeanDifference(SD)	pValueforChange
Patient Perception	Before	After	Before	After
Total activity: Do you do some regular exercise? If so, how often? (range, 0–12 based on frequency and duration)	4.8	4.1	4.5	4.1	0.3 (3.3)	.82
Physician behavior (range, 6–30)	14.3 *	15.2	15.7 *	16.5	−0.1 (6.7)	.25
Current health status from SF-20 (range 5–25)	12.3	12.9	12.2	12.7	−0.1 (4.3)	.51

^*p < .03 for comparison of baseline data.