Teaching about Physical Activity Counselling for Medical Students: A Systematic Review

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10.2991/978-94-6463-807-3_12How to use a DOI?

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Learning strategies; Physical activity counseling; Medical students

Abstract

Physical activity is proven to have great benefits for individual health. General practitioners have an important role to increase the level of physical activity in society by providing counseling, but many have not done so, due to their lack of understanding of physical activity counseling since they were still in their education. The purpose of this study was to determine the learning strategies used to teach the topic of physical activity counseling in medical education. This study used a systematic review design, beginning with filtering articles from four databases namely EbscoHost, PubMed, Scopus, and ScienceDirect, manual searching based on related journals, and followed by snowballing techniques. Inclusion criteria were articles published in 2010–2022, population of medical students, interventions in the form of various learning strategies regarding physical activity counseling, and outcomes in the form of evaluating knowledge, skills, and attitudes according to Kirkpatrick level 2. 16 selected articles describe various learning strategies regarding physical activity counseling. The majority of the articles use multimodal learning and experential learning methods. All articles show learning strategies proven to increase attitudes towards physical activity counseling. The challenges faced include a lack of provision regarding the theory of physical activity and communication skills, a lack of role models, and also a lack of time allocation. The results of the study show an overview of learning strategies that can be used to teach physical activity counseling to students along with evaluations and challenges faced. There needs to be more interventional research that examines aspects of knowledge and skills. In facing the challenges that will arise, the curriculum team must design learning strategies carefully and in line with learning objectives.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hilma Tsurayya Iftitahurroza
AU  - Titi Savitri
AU  - Gandes Retno Rahayu
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/09/17
TI  - Teaching about Physical Activity Counselling for Medical Students: A Systematic Review
BT  - Proceedings of the Malang International Conference in Medical and Health Sciences (MICROMEDHS 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 123
EP  - 141
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-807-3_12
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-807-3_12
ID  - Iftitahurroza2025
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