title: Patient compliance to individualized home exercise programs.
abstract: Of individuals prescribed individualized home exercise programs, 55.2 percent continued to achieve greater than 75 percent of thier exercising goal after 32 weeks of participation. A method of predicting compliance early in the course of an exercise program is presented. The parameters as outlined were successful in correctly predicting by four weeks of participation the level of compliance in 89.6 percent of the individuals in this program. Family physicians should therefore be encouraged to prescribe exercise for their patients with the expectation of a significant compliant response. Early predictability also provides the physician the opportunity of intervention and modification of the program to further enhance compliance.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D012737:Sex Factors