Feasibility and Acceptability of a Student-Led Lifestyle (Diet and Exercise) Intervention Within a Residential Rehabilitation Setting for People With Severe Mental Illness, GO HEART (Group Occupation, Health, Exercise And Rehabilitation Treatment).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

People with severe mental illness (SMI) experience poor physical health and premature mortality, contributed significantly by modifiable lifestyle risk factors such as poor nutrition, low cardiorespiratory fitness, and physical inactivity. Lifestyle interventions can reduce cardiometabolic risk and confer a range of other positive mental and physical health benefits. We assessed the feasibility, acceptability, safety, and preliminary effectiveness of a lifestyle (combined dietary and exercise) intervention lead by senior exercise and dietetics students in a residential mental health rehabilitation setting.

Design

Single arm, prospective study evaluating outcomes pre and post a 10-week dietary and exercise intervention.

Method

People with SMI from three residen

SUBMITTER: Korman N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7198865 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature