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Knowledge and practice of the physical activity prescription by generalists and specialist physicians of the city of Kinshasa: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: The health benefits of regular physical activity (PA) are well documented. However, several people in both developed and developing countries do not meet PA recommendations. Health professionals are believed to be potential PA promoters. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into...

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Autores principales: Christian-Khalifa, Emeka Bowamou, Aliocha, Nkodila Natuhoyila, Constant, Nkiama Ekisawa, Jean-Paul, Divengi Nzambi, Eleuthère, Kintoki Vita, Benjamin, Longo-Mbenza, Jean-Réné, M’buyamba-Kabangu, Bernard, Kianu Phanzu
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10537417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37770923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13102-023-00737-w
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author Christian-Khalifa, Emeka Bowamou
Aliocha, Nkodila Natuhoyila
Constant, Nkiama Ekisawa
Jean-Paul, Divengi Nzambi
Eleuthère, Kintoki Vita
Benjamin, Longo-Mbenza
Jean-Réné, M’buyamba-Kabangu
Bernard, Kianu Phanzu
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Aliocha, Nkodila Natuhoyila
Constant, Nkiama Ekisawa
Jean-Paul, Divengi Nzambi
Eleuthère, Kintoki Vita
Benjamin, Longo-Mbenza
Jean-Réné, M’buyamba-Kabangu
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description BACKGROUND: The health benefits of regular physical activity (PA) are well documented. However, several people in both developed and developing countries do not meet PA recommendations. Health professionals are believed to be potential PA promoters. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into general and specialist practitioners’ knowledge, practices and PA prescription-related factors in private and public hospitals in Kinshasa. METHODS: A multicenter cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among general and specialist practitioners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital using a declarative and anonymous questionnaire. RESULTS: Overall, 40.2% of the participants were interested in their patient’s PA, 2.3% prescribed PA, and 0.9% did it correctly. Specialist physicians (SPs) prescribed PA more frequently than general practitioners (GP), and private hospital physicians prescribed PA more frequently than public hospital physicians. Five factors were independently associated with participants in prescribing PA: being in a private hospital increased the likelihood of prescribing PA by twofold (aOR, 1.83; 95% CI, 0.99–3.39; p = 0.055), being an SP increased the likelihood by sixfold (aOR, 6.22; 95% CI, 3.78–10.51; p = 0.000), being an internist increase the likelihood by sixfold (aOR, 5.81; 95% CI, 3.45–9.78; p = 0.000), being cardiologist by a factor of 12 (aOR, 12.91; 95% CI, 4.37–38.15; p = 0.000) and knowing the benefits of PA by a factor of 2 (aOR, 2.29; 95% CI, 1.29–4.08; p = 0.006). The most common reason given for a lack of interest in patients’ PA, followed by a lack of knowledge about current PA prescribing recommendations and a lack of time. CONCLUSIONS: SPs and professionals in the private health sector were the most interested in their patients’ PA. A small portion of them actually prescribed it, and only a tiny proportion did it correctly. This bleak picture highlights a need to rethink the undergraduate medical curricula, especially about teachings on the importance and use of PA as a medicine in its own right in disease prevention and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-105374172023-09-29 Knowledge and practice of the physical activity prescription by generalists and specialist physicians of the city of Kinshasa: a cross-sectional study Christian-Khalifa, Emeka Bowamou Aliocha, Nkodila Natuhoyila Constant, Nkiama Ekisawa Jean-Paul, Divengi Nzambi Eleuthère, Kintoki Vita Benjamin, Longo-Mbenza Jean-Réné, M’buyamba-Kabangu Bernard, Kianu Phanzu BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil Research BACKGROUND: The health benefits of regular physical activity (PA) are well documented. However, several people in both developed and developing countries do not meet PA recommendations. Health professionals are believed to be potential PA promoters. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into general and specialist practitioners’ knowledge, practices and PA prescription-related factors in private and public hospitals in Kinshasa. METHODS: A multicenter cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among general and specialist practitioners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital using a declarative and anonymous questionnaire. RESULTS: Overall, 40.2% of the participants were interested in their patient’s PA, 2.3% prescribed PA, and 0.9% did it correctly. Specialist physicians (SPs) prescribed PA more frequently than general practitioners (GP), and private hospital physicians prescribed PA more frequently than public hospital physicians. Five factors were independently associated with participants in prescribing PA: being in a private hospital increased the likelihood of prescribing PA by twofold (aOR, 1.83; 95% CI, 0.99–3.39; p = 0.055), being an SP increased the likelihood by sixfold (aOR, 6.22; 95% CI, 3.78–10.51; p = 0.000), being an internist increase the likelihood by sixfold (aOR, 5.81; 95% CI, 3.45–9.78; p = 0.000), being cardiologist by a factor of 12 (aOR, 12.91; 95% CI, 4.37–38.15; p = 0.000) and knowing the benefits of PA by a factor of 2 (aOR, 2.29; 95% CI, 1.29–4.08; p = 0.006). The most common reason given for a lack of interest in patients’ PA, followed by a lack of knowledge about current PA prescribing recommendations and a lack of time. CONCLUSIONS: SPs and professionals in the private health sector were the most interested in their patients’ PA. A small portion of them actually prescribed it, and only a tiny proportion did it correctly. This bleak picture highlights a need to rethink the undergraduate medical curricula, especially about teachings on the importance and use of PA as a medicine in its own right in disease prevention and treatment. BioMed Central 2023-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10537417/ /pubmed/37770923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13102-023-00737-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Christian-Khalifa, Emeka Bowamou
Aliocha, Nkodila Natuhoyila
Constant, Nkiama Ekisawa
Jean-Paul, Divengi Nzambi
Eleuthère, Kintoki Vita
Benjamin, Longo-Mbenza
Jean-Réné, M’buyamba-Kabangu
Bernard, Kianu Phanzu
Knowledge and practice of the physical activity prescription by generalists and specialist physicians of the city of Kinshasa: a cross-sectional study
title Knowledge and practice of the physical activity prescription by generalists and specialist physicians of the city of Kinshasa: a cross-sectional study
title_full Knowledge and practice of the physical activity prescription by generalists and specialist physicians of the city of Kinshasa: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Knowledge and practice of the physical activity prescription by generalists and specialist physicians of the city of Kinshasa: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge and practice of the physical activity prescription by generalists and specialist physicians of the city of Kinshasa: a cross-sectional study
title_short Knowledge and practice of the physical activity prescription by generalists and specialist physicians of the city of Kinshasa: a cross-sectional study
title_sort knowledge and practice of the physical activity prescription by generalists and specialist physicians of the city of kinshasa: a cross-sectional study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10537417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37770923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13102-023-00737-w
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