BACKGROUND: Physician counseling of patients to increase physical activity has had limited success in changing behavior. Providing organizational support to primary care providers and their patients may increase effectiveness. telephone-based intervention to increase physical activity among patients who exercised < 15 minutes daily and wanted to increase their physical activity over a 6-month period. to 1998, of 316 patients aged 18 to 65 who were recruited from a mailed health risk assessment. Baseline and 6-month post-intervention telephone assessments were conducted by telephone. counseling. Physician-Based Assessment and Counseling for Exercise (PACE)) 6 months after the intervention. significantly higher level of self-reported exercise among individuals randomized to the intervention at the 6-month follow-up. The mean level of activity at follow-up for the intervention group was a PACE score of 5.37, compared to 4.98 in the control group (p < 0.05). In the secondary analysis, which was limited to individuals who received the intervention, the effect was stronger (PACE score of 5.58 compared to 4.94, p < 0.013). questionnaire to receive a telephone-delivered behavioral intervention to successfully increase their physical activity levels.

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