What affects physical activity in a rehabilitation centre? Voices of patients, nurses, therapists, and activity trackers.

The focus on what affects - defines, hampers, or supports - physical activity in a rehabilitation centre allowed developing a better understanding of how care culture and the built environment interrelate.Implications for rehabilitationHow physical activity is perceived by patients reflects the goals they like to achieve through rehabilitation.The built environment is a third factor in the relation between care culture and patients' physical activity.Fully supporting patients to be physically active with respect to their personality and capabilities requires differentiating between patients both in how they are approached (patient- or person-centred) and in how they are spatially facilitated.