Fig. 2

Intentions toward providing future exercise counsel. a Stacked intention responses for each of the three exercise modalities. The proportions are calculated within each exercise category, e.g. sum of black bars = 100%. On average about 24% of respondents had low (responses very unlikely-likely or 1–2) and 45% had high intentions (likely-very likely or 6–7). The distribution of responses is not the same for the 3 exercise modalities: Friedman two-way analysis of variance by ranks for repeated measures, N=73χ²(2) = 33.977, p<.0005. Pairwise comparisons using Wilcoxon signed-rank test * p<.05. b Average intention score across 3 exercise modalities divided into three respondent groups. Black bars show mean. Distributions of intention were not similar across groups, as assessed by visual inspection of the dot density plots, so difference in mean ranks was tested using a Kruskal-Wallis H test χ²(2) = 31.555, p<.0005. Dunn’s procedure for post-hoc pairwise comparisions revealed differences between HP_No (mean rank = 19.77) and both other groups (Physicians = 46.30, HP_Yes = 50.67), which were not different from each other. ** p<.0005