Improving metabolic risk in patients with mental illness through 'mental health care plans' in primary health care.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To determine the association between types of mental illness, levels of social disadvantage and metabolic risk factors (obesity, tobacco smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol) and to investigate whether mental health care plans modify metabolic risk.

Methods

Two cohorts (2016-2023) of all primary care patients in Western Sydney with active mental illness or never having a mental illness (reference cohort) were compared on metabolic risk and change in metabolic risk during the period of the care plan (12 months) using random effects regression. Also, the social gradient of metabolic risk in patients with active mental illness was determined. Analyses were adjusted for age, sex and social disadvantage.

Results

There were 29,592 patients with active menta

SUBMITTER: Dronavalli M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12280240 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature