@article{ce7f56b001be11dfaefb000ea68e967b,
title = "Exercise on prescription: a randomized study on the effect of counseling vs counseling and supervised exercise",
abstract = "The aim of this study was to compare short- (0-4 months) and long-term (0-10 months) effects of high-intensive Exercise on Prescription (EoP) intervention (counseling and supervised exercise) implemented in primary healthcare in a number of Danish counties with a low-intensive intervention (counseling) using maximal oxygen uptake (VO(2max)) as the primary outcome. The study was conducted as a randomized trial in 2005-2006 with a high and a low-intensive group. All the patients referred to the EoP scheme by their GP in the counties of Vejle and Ribe, Denmark, were eligible for the trial. The high-intensive EoP group received 4 months of group-based supervised training and attended five motivational counseling sessions. The low-intensive group only attended four motivational counseling sessions. Three hundred and twenty-seven patients entered the EoP scheme, and 52 (16\%) volunteered for the randomized trial. No short- or long-term differences were found between the high and the low-intensive groups for VO(2max) (short-term 95\% CI -1.1; 4.4 mL O(2)/(kg min), long-term 95\% CI -1.6 to 2.1). The present study did not demonstrate any significant clinical outcome for the high-intensive EoP intervention as opposed to the low-intensive intervention.",
keywords = "Denmark, Directive Counseling, Exercise, Exercise Therapy, Female, Health Status Indicators, Humans, Life Style, Male, Middle Aged, Motor Activity, Oxygen Consumption, Quality of Life, Risk Factors, Risk Reduction Behavior, Time Factors",
author = "S{\o}rensen, \{Jes Bak\} and J. Kragstrup and Thomas Skovgaard and Lis Puggaard",
year = "2008",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1111/j.1600-0838.2008.00811.x",
language = "English",
volume = "18",
pages = "288--97",
journal = "Scandinavian Journal of Medicine \& Science in Sports",
issn = "0905-7188",
publisher = "Wiley",
number = "3",
}