The implementation of exercise therapy within hospital-based mental healthcare: Delphi study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The physical health comorbidities and premature mortality experienced by people with mental illness has led to an increase in exercise services embedded as part of standard care in hospital-based mental health services. Despite the increase in access to exercise services for people experiencing mental illness, there is currently a lack of guidelines on the assessment and triage of patients into exercise therapy.

Aims

To develop guidelines for the pre-exercise screening and health assessment of patients engaged with exercise services in hospital-based mental healthcare and to establish an exercise therapy triage framework for use in hospital-based mental healthcare.

Method

A Delphi technique consisting of two online surveys and two rounds of focus group disc

SUBMITTER: McMahen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11698169 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature