High levels of physical inactivity amongst dental professionals: a questionnaire based cross sectional study

A Dentist plays an important role in providing health education (General and Oral) to the community. Questions arise regarding their own health, which in turn affects their patients' counselling for leading a healthy and a physically active life. To measure and compare the amount of physical ac...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of clinical and diagnostic research 2015-01, Vol.9 (1), p.ZC43-ZC46
Hauptverfasser: Thakar, Sahil, Shivlingesh, Kk, Jayaprakash, K, Gupta, Bhuvandeep, Gupta, Neha, Anand, Richa, Motghare, Vaibhav, Prabhakar, Ishan
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Zusammenfassung:A Dentist plays an important role in providing health education (General and Oral) to the community. Questions arise regarding their own health, which in turn affects their patients' counselling for leading a healthy and a physically active life. To measure and compare the amount of physical activity present amongst dental professionals with the general population of Greater Noida. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) was used to measure physical activity and statistical significance was calculated using SPSS version 21.0. Statistical significance was kept as p
ISSN:2249-782X
0973-709X
DOI:10.7860/JCDR/2015/10459.5466