Providing the patient with this information is often a challenge because of the short duration of a typical physician-patient encounter. It is difficult to diagnose, prescribe, deliver quality preventive care, and conduct behavioral counseling in a single visit without the use of a supplemental teaching method, such as a video tape, handout, video-cassette, or interactive computer application. With a variety of ways to provide patient education, there is a need to know how patients prefer to obtain patient information and how they are presently receiving their patient education. It would be interesting to also determine if there is a difference in gender, age, ethnicity, income level and education and the preferred delivery of patient education. The purpose of this study is to obtain demographic information about how patients are presently receiving patient education and how they would prefer to receive patient education.
Exercise is an important strategy for preventing chronic disease and promoting positive mood.
Patients are now searching for therapeutic modalities in addition to or instead of pharmacotherapy. An abundance of research indicates that exercise is an excellent alternative therapy for depressed patients. The Beck Depression Inventory and the Profile of Mood States will be used to pretest and posttest the subjects. A t-test for independent samples will be used to determine if there is a significant difference between the C and W group. Very little is known about the prevalence and impact of erectile dysfunction in the primary care setting.