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A World Allergy Organization international survey on physical activity as a treatment option for asthma and allergies
BACKGROUND: Physical exercise has been shown to improve asthma symptoms, QoL, exercise capacity, bronchial hyperresponsiveness and lung function and is recommended as a supplementary treatment to pharmacotherapy for asthma. Clinicians are well placed to promote physically active lifestyles, but thei...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25829982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-7-34 |
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author | Moreira, Andre Bonini, Matteo Pawankar, Ruby Anderson, Sandra D Carlsen, Kai-Håkon Randolph, Christopher Silvers, William Storms, William Weiler, John M Bonini, Sergio |
author_facet | Moreira, Andre Bonini, Matteo Pawankar, Ruby Anderson, Sandra D Carlsen, Kai-Håkon Randolph, Christopher Silvers, William Storms, William Weiler, John M Bonini, Sergio |
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description | BACKGROUND: Physical exercise has been shown to improve asthma symptoms, QoL, exercise capacity, bronchial hyperresponsiveness and lung function and is recommended as a supplementary treatment to pharmacotherapy for asthma. Clinicians are well placed to promote physically active lifestyles, but their role and practice towards promoting physically active lifestyles among patients has not been fully investigated. This study was designed to investigate the knowledge, propensity, attitude and practices of clinicians towards the promotion of physical activity among patients with asthma and allergies. METHODS: Two hundred and eighty clinicians (mean age; 46 ± 13 years; with a clinical experience of practice for 15 ± 7 years) participated in a global survey. The survey comprised a 29-item questionnaire, which gathered information on attitudes of the clinicians towards promoting physical activity, their knowledge and their beliefs regarding evidence for benefits of physical activity as a supplementary treatment in patients with asthma and allergies. RESULTS: Almost all respondents were aware of the strong evidence in favor of physical activity for the psychological well-being, weight control, decreased risk of diabetes, ischemic heart disease and arterial hypertension. Evidence for reduction in the risk for developing asthma and for better asthma control were reported by 60.0% and 85.4% of participants, respectively. The majority (85.0%) of clinicians strongly agreed that promoting physical activity is important to health care, although 95.5% considered they required more educational training. Although two thirds of them usually recommended exercise to their asthmatic/allergic patients, only 24.0% reported having previous training on the subject of such counseling. Almost all believed that effective counseling about a healthy diet, exercise and weight management would be easier if the clinician himself/herself was physically fit and healthy. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this global survey indicate that clinicians working in the field of allergy and respiratory diseases are well aware of the evidence supporting the benefits of physical activity for asthma and allergic diseases although they need more training in such counseling. Therefore, concerted efforts are needed towards educating clinicians towards promoting physical activity and weight management, as a supplementary treatment for asthma and allergies. |
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spelling | pubmed-43631882015-03-31 A World Allergy Organization international survey on physical activity as a treatment option for asthma and allergies Moreira, Andre Bonini, Matteo Pawankar, Ruby Anderson, Sandra D Carlsen, Kai-Håkon Randolph, Christopher Silvers, William Storms, William Weiler, John M Bonini, Sergio World Allergy Organ J Original Research BACKGROUND: Physical exercise has been shown to improve asthma symptoms, QoL, exercise capacity, bronchial hyperresponsiveness and lung function and is recommended as a supplementary treatment to pharmacotherapy for asthma. Clinicians are well placed to promote physically active lifestyles, but their role and practice towards promoting physically active lifestyles among patients has not been fully investigated. This study was designed to investigate the knowledge, propensity, attitude and practices of clinicians towards the promotion of physical activity among patients with asthma and allergies. METHODS: Two hundred and eighty clinicians (mean age; 46 ± 13 years; with a clinical experience of practice for 15 ± 7 years) participated in a global survey. The survey comprised a 29-item questionnaire, which gathered information on attitudes of the clinicians towards promoting physical activity, their knowledge and their beliefs regarding evidence for benefits of physical activity as a supplementary treatment in patients with asthma and allergies. RESULTS: Almost all respondents were aware of the strong evidence in favor of physical activity for the psychological well-being, weight control, decreased risk of diabetes, ischemic heart disease and arterial hypertension. Evidence for reduction in the risk for developing asthma and for better asthma control were reported by 60.0% and 85.4% of participants, respectively. The majority (85.0%) of clinicians strongly agreed that promoting physical activity is important to health care, although 95.5% considered they required more educational training. Although two thirds of them usually recommended exercise to their asthmatic/allergic patients, only 24.0% reported having previous training on the subject of such counseling. Almost all believed that effective counseling about a healthy diet, exercise and weight management would be easier if the clinician himself/herself was physically fit and healthy. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this global survey indicate that clinicians working in the field of allergy and respiratory diseases are well aware of the evidence supporting the benefits of physical activity for asthma and allergic diseases although they need more training in such counseling. Therefore, concerted efforts are needed towards educating clinicians towards promoting physical activity and weight management, as a supplementary treatment for asthma and allergies. BioMed Central 2014-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4363188/ /pubmed/25829982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-7-34 Text en © Moreira et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Moreira, Andre Bonini, Matteo Pawankar, Ruby Anderson, Sandra D Carlsen, Kai-Håkon Randolph, Christopher Silvers, William Storms, William Weiler, John M Bonini, Sergio A World Allergy Organization international survey on physical activity as a treatment option for asthma and allergies |
title | A World Allergy Organization international survey on physical activity as a treatment option for asthma and allergies |
title_full | A World Allergy Organization international survey on physical activity as a treatment option for asthma and allergies |
title_fullStr | A World Allergy Organization international survey on physical activity as a treatment option for asthma and allergies |
title_full_unstemmed | A World Allergy Organization international survey on physical activity as a treatment option for asthma and allergies |
title_short | A World Allergy Organization international survey on physical activity as a treatment option for asthma and allergies |
title_sort | world allergy organization international survey on physical activity as a treatment option for asthma and allergies |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25829982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1939-4551-7-34 |
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