Fig. 5

Forest plots indicating PARS effect on physical activity as compared to usual care, PA advice, and scheme intensity determined by random effects meta-analysis. Hedges’ g > 0 favors PARS, PARS physical activity referral scheme, CI confidence intervals, Meta-analysis A Omitting Murphy et al. 2012 as influential case for the PA analysis: g = 0.22, 95%CI 0.16 to 0.29, p-value < 0.0001, I2 = 0% [0.0%; 62.4%], Meta-analysis B Bellanger et al. 2023 included also active participants at baseline