The acceptability of lifestyle medicine for the treatment of mental illness: perspectives of people with and without lived experience of mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

While lifestyle medicine can be highly effective for treating a range of mental illnesses these approaches are grossly underutilised and have not been systematically implemented into health care systems. Understanding the acceptability of lifestyle medicine is a critical first step to remediate this. This study evaluated the acceptability of lifestyle medicine relative to pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, and explore perspectives of people with and without lived experience of mental illness.

Methods

Six hundred and forty-nine adult Australian residents (62.6% female; 53.6% with a lifetime diagnosis of mental illness) completed an online survey based on the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability assessing the acceptability of lifestyle medicine, pharmacotherapy and

SUBMITTER: Richardson K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10787508 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature