Evaluating the implementation of a multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention for people with severe mental illness in sheltered housing: effectiveness-implementation hybrid randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lifestyle interventions can improve health-related outcomes for people with severe mental illness (SMI), but few studies evaluate this potential in everyday settings. After a successful approach in routine inpatient mental healthcare (MULTI), we sought to replicate this multidisciplinary lifestyle-enhancing support in people with SMI living in sheltered housing (MULTI_sh).

Aims

To evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of MULTI_sh (trial registration: NCT03157557).

Method

In an effectiveness-implementation hybrid cluster-randomised controlled trial, six municipalities with sheltered housing facilities in The Netherlands were randomly assigned to MULTI_sh (n = 3) or treatment as usual (TAU, n = 3). After 12 months, we evaluated effects o

SUBMITTER: Smit MMC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9707511 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature