Table 3.
Description of datasets in relation to each measure before (baseline) and after the development work (follow-up)a
| Baseline | Follow-up | |
|---|---|---|
| Health professionals responding to the questionnaire, N (%) b | 75 (53 %) | 80 (57 %) |
| Profession | ||
| physician | 18 (24) | 13 (16) |
| nurse | 42 (56) | 43 (54) |
| physiotherapist | 15 (20) | 24 (30) |
| Years in the current working place, mean (SD) | 11.3 (10.4) | 11.2 (10.0) |
| Working in outpatient health servicesc | 74 (99) | 79 (99) |
| Patients per day, mean (SD) | 9.0 (5.6) | 12.7 (23.5) |
| Minutes per patient, mean (SD) | 36.5 (18.3) | 37.6 (18.7) |
| Patient visits on the record sheets, N | 1008 | 1000 |
| By a professional group, N (%) | ||
| physician | 413 (41) | 228 (23) |
| nurse | 417 (41) | 633 (63) |
| physiotherapist | 178 (18) | 139 (14) |
| By a single employee, mean (SD) | 9.1 (8.0) | 9.1 (6.9) |
| physician | 11.0 (9.5) | 10.0 (8.1) |
| nurse | 8.0 (6.6) | 9.3 (6.5) |
| physiotherapist | 7.0 (6.1) | 7.2 (6.1) |
| Health professionals completing the record sheet on patients visitsd | N = 112 (79 %) | N = 89 (63 %) |
| physician | 35 (31) | 17 (19) |
| nurse | 51 (46) | 54 (61) |
| physiotherapist | 26 (23) | 18 (20) |
| Patients responding to the questionnairee | N = 441 (44 %) | N = 431 (43 %) |
| Age, mean (SD) | 54.1 (17.8) | 58.6 (17.3) |
| Sex | ||
| female | 286 (65) | 280 (65) |
| male | 153 (35) | 148 (35) |
| Professional visited | ||
| physician | 193 (44) | 198 (46) |
| nurse | 152 (35) | 135 (32) |
| physiotherapist | 81 (19) | 87 (20) |
| other | 10 (2) | 8 (2) |
| Reason for the visit | ||
| diagnostic examinations or treatment of a symptom, disease or injury | 261 (60) | 277 (64) |
| preventive health examination | 54 (12) | 55 (13) |
| birth control, maternity care | 35 (8) | 27 (6) |
| other | 85 (20) | 71 (17) |
| First visit | 152 (35) | 128 (30) |
| Illness diagnosed by a physicianf | 338 (83) | 350 (87) |
| Moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity 1–2 hours a week and muscular strength training on at least 2 days a week. | 137 (33) | 146 (37) |
| External partners interviewed | N = 48 | N = 28 |
| Primary working place | ||
| non-profit health or patient organization | 8 (17) | 6 (21) |
| exercise and sports club | 7 (15) | 4 (14) |
| public PA services | 7 (15) | 2 (7) |
| private fitness centre | 6 (12) | 2 (7) |
| adult education centre etc. | 4 (8) | 3 (11) |
| other | 16 (33) | 11 (39) |
| Implements PA counselling in own work. | 20 (42) | 9 (32) |
| Reports that there is an agreement in the municipality about the coordination of health-enhancing PA. | 24 (50) | 18 (64) |
| Reports that there is an agreement in the municipality about sharing the responsibilities of health-enhancing PA. | 15 (31) | 8 (29) |
Numbers (N) and proportions (%) or means and standard deviations (SD)
aIn the datasets of questionnaire to health professionals and external partner interview the follow-up measures were addressed not only to those responding at baseline but also to non-respondents. As a result, the persons responding at baseline and follow-up may have been slightly different. In the datasets concerning record sheets on patient visits and questionnaire to the patients it is likely that majority of the patients were different at the two time points
bQuestionnaire to the health professionals was targeted to physicians, nurses and physiotherapists, n = 141 at baseline and follow-up
cMultiple responses were allowed. If at least one of the responses was maternity or child health care, school or student health care, occupational health care, consultations for special groups, it indicated working in outpatient health services
dThe record sheet on all non-emergency patient visits was delivered to physicians, nurses and physiotherapists (n = 141) to be kept for 5 days or until records on 15 patients had been completed
eThe percentage has been calculated from the total number of patient visits recorded, which was 1008 at baseline and 1000 at follow-up
fCoronary artery disease, hypertension, claudication, other cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol, overweight, asthma, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, lower limb osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory joint disease, chronic or frequent low back pain, chronic or frequent neck-shoulder pain, osteoporosis or related fractures, low state of mood or depression, sleeping disorders, breast cancer, colon cancer