Main Outcomes of a Peer-Led Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for People With Serious Mental Illness in Supportive Housing.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The effectiveness of the Peer-led Group Lifestyle Balance (PGLB) intervention, a 12-month manualized healthy lifestyle intervention delivered by peer specialists, was investigated in a sample of persons with serious mental illness who were overweight or obese and living in supportive housing.

Methods

The authors randomly assigned 314 participants from three supportive housing agencies to PGLB or usual care, with assessments at baseline and 6, 12, and 18 months. Outcomes were clinically significant changes from baseline in weight (≥5% weight loss), cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF; increase of ≥50 meters in the 6-minute walk test), and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction (clinically significant weight loss or CRF improvement).

Results

Most participants

SUBMITTER: Cabassa LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8607694 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature