Training Health Professionals To Provide Physical Activity Counselling

Introduction 72 Effectiveness of HPs PA counselling 73 Changing HP PA counselling behaviour 73 Changing patient PA behaviour 73 Brief PA counselling 73 Case studies 74 Case study 1 - HP students working together with patients with persistent pain 74 Case study 2 ? accredited exercise physiology case study sessions 74 Case study 3 ? experiential learning: medical students exercise trained by exercise science students 75 Case study 4 ? targeting hospital-based HPs 75There is strong evidence that physical activity (PA) counselling from a health professional (HPs) leads to in-creased PA of their patients. Despite this, there remains a large evidence-practice gap between HP knowledge of the contribution of physical inactivity to chronic disease prevention and management, and routine effective assessment and prescription of PA. This article will present evidence on the effectiveness of HP-PA counselling and suggested behaviour change frameworks that can be used by HP. Four case studies are provided as examples of programs integrated into current HP student and post-graduate training programs. ? 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.