Promoting physical activity to patients: a scoping review of the perceptions of doctors in the United Kingdom

Table 1 Search terms used for systematic searching

Target population	Physical activity	Perceptions	Promotion
doctor, physician, surgeon, "general practitioner”, gp, "healthcare profession", "health care profession*", “primary care”	“physical activit”, exercis, activit, walk, green*	perception, view, perspective, thought, think, opinion, attitude, believe, belief, idea, barrier, influenc, opportunit*, qualitative	prescription, prescrib, promot, counsel, refer*

The asterisk symbol (*) indicates truncation which is used to instruct online databases to search for alternative word endings

ISSN: 2046-4053