Table 6.
Family medicine residents’ perceptions of exercise prescription (EP): the importance of EP in their future practice, EP training received and EP training desired
| Question | Response1 | % (n) |
|---|---|---|
| “Prescribing physical activity to my patients will be an important part of my FUTURE medical practice” | Disagree | 0.3 (1) |
| Neutral | 4.1 (12) | |
| Agree | 95.6 (281) | |
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| “I have received an adequate amount of education/training on physical activity counselling and exercise prescription for health, prevention and treatment of disease during my family medicine residency training2” | Disagree | 61.8 (173) |
| Neutral | 23.2 (65) | |
| Agree | 14.9 (42) | |
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| “I would like to receive more education/training on physical activity counselling and exercise prescription for health, prevention and treatment of disease” | Disagree | 1.4 (4) |
| Neutral | 7.6 (21) | |
| Agree | 91 (252) | |
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Responses from the 7-Point Likert scale were categorized as disagree, neutral and agree as follows: Disagree=1–3 (Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Somewhat Disagree); Neutral=4; Agree=5–7 (Somewhat Agree, Agree, Strongly Agree)