Oyeyemi Adewale L, Oyeyemi Adetoyeje Y, Habib Rahana Y, Usman Rashida B, Sunday Jasper U, Usman Zubair
Department of Physiotherapy, College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri, P.M.B 1069 Bama Road, Maiduguri, Borno State Nigeria.
Faculty of Medicine, Federal University Dutse, Dutse, Jigawa State Nigeria.
Arch Physiother. 2017 May 19;7:5. doi: 10.1186/s40945-017-0034-8. eCollection 2017.
Effective control of non-communicable diseases and promotion of population-wide physical activity participation require the active engagement of health professionals. Physiotherapists and physicians, as part of their practice, routinely screen and assess physical activity status, and recommend health enhancing physical activity participation for their patients. This study aims to compare Nigerian physiotherapists and physicians' knowledge of physical activity message, role perception and confidence, perceived feasibility and barriers, and overall disposition to promoting physical activity in their practice.
A total of 153 physicians and 94 physiotherapists recruited from 10 government hospitals in five states in Northern Nigeria completed a standardized physical activity promotion questionnaire that elicited information on the knowledge of physical activity, role perception and confidence, feasibility, and barriers to physical activity promotion. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data.
The physiotherapists and physicians were fairly knowledgeable on physical activity message (14.2 ± 2.1/20), reported minimal or little barrier to physical activity promotion (23.7 ± 3.1/30), perceived physical activity promotion as their role (13.0 ± 1.8/15), were confident in their ability to discuss and recommend physical activity promotion (7.6 ± 1.6/10) and believed promoting physical activity was feasible for them (15.6 ± 2.6/20). However, over 40% of the physiotherapists and physicians do not know the correct dosage of physical activity that could confer health benefits to patients. The physicians showed better overall disposition to physical activity promotion than the physiotherapists ( = 0.048), but more physiotherapists than the physicians believed ' (95.7% vs 88.2%, = 0.043) and were more (87.2% vs 64.5%, < 0.001).
Physiotherapists and physicians in Nigeria demonstrated good disposition to promoting physical activity but many of them have knowledge deficits on the correct dosage required for better health for their patients. These health professionals can serve as good advocates for physical activity promotion in Nigeria, but many of them may require knowledge update on health enhancing physical activity for effective health promotion and primary prevention of non-communicable diseases.
有效控制非传染性疾病并促进全民参与体育活动需要卫生专业人员的积极参与。物理治疗师和医生在其日常工作中，会定期筛查和评估体育活动状况，并为患者推荐有益健康的体育活动。本研究旨在比较尼日利亚物理治疗师和医生对体育活动信息的了解、角色认知和信心、感知到的可行性和障碍，以及他们在实践中促进体育活动的总体倾向。
从尼日利亚北部五个州的10家政府医院招募了153名医生和94名物理治疗师，他们完成了一份标准化的体育活动促进问卷，该问卷收集了有关体育活动知识、角色认知和信心、可行性以及体育活动促进障碍方面的信息。使用描述性和推断性统计方法分析数据。
物理治疗师和医生对体育活动信息有一定了解（14.2±2.1/20），报告称体育活动促进的障碍极小或几乎没有（23.7±3.1/30），将体育活动促进视为自己的职责（13.0±1.8/15），对讨论和推荐体育活动促进有信心（7.6±1.6/10），并认为促进体育活动对他们来说是可行的（15.6±2.6/20）。然而，超过40%的物理治疗师和医生不知道能给患者带来健康益处的体育活动的正确剂量。医生在促进体育活动方面的总体倾向比物理治疗师更好（P = 0.048），但认为“（95.7%对88.2%，P = 0.043）且更多（87.2%对64.5%，P < 0.001）的物理治疗师比医生更多。
尼日利亚的物理治疗师和医生表现出促进体育活动的良好倾向，但他们中的许多人在对患者健康有益的正确剂量方面存在知识缺陷。这些卫生专业人员可以成为尼日利亚体育活动促进的良好倡导者，但他们中的许多人可能需要更新有关有益健康的体育活动的知识，以有效地促进健康和预防非传染性疾病。
