Nurse practitioner and physician assistant physical activity counseling knowledge, confidence and practices

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 306-308

  Grimstvedt, Megan E ^a   Der Ananian, Cheryl ^b   Keller, Colleen ^b   Woolf, Kathleen ^c   Sebren, Ann ^b   Ainsworth, Barbara ^b  

^a Northeast Lakeview College   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counseling; Health promotion; Nurse practitioners; Physical activity; Physician assistants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ARIZONA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84860433621     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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