HEAD-MIP-(HEAlth Dialogues for patients with Mental Illness in Primary care)-a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with mental illness have an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality compared to the rest of the population, which is partly related to unhealthy lifestyle habits. To individualise lifestyle counselling in primary care, the Swedish-developed Health Dialogue (HD) can be used as an educative tool at recurrent measurement points with the goal to improve non-healthy lifestyle habits. HD has not been aimed specifically at patients with mental illness, and the effect of a systematic approach with repeated HDs in patients with mental illness in primary care has not been previously studied. The aim of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of the study design for a larger-scale cohort study using repeated HDs focused on the improvement of lifesty

SUBMITTER: Milos Nymberg V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10538239 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature