ArticleBMC psychiatry2011
A well-being support program for patients with severe mental illness: a service evaluation.
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- Strengthening the delivery of integrated physical health care for adults experiencing serious mental illness: a scoping review of interventions in mental health settings.Frontiers in health services · 2025Pooled it
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- Pathway to care and time to treatment among patients attending psychiatry service at Dilla, Ethiopia, a cross-sectional study.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Integrated Care to Address the Physical Health Needs of People with Severe Mental Illness: A Mapping Review of the Recent Evidence on Barriers, Facilitators and Evaluations.International journal of integrated care · 2018Article
- Understanding experiences of and preferences for service user and carer involvement in physical health care discussions within mental health care planning.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
- Comorbid medical illness in bipolar disorder.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2014Article
- The effectiveness of specialist roles in mental health metabolic monitoring: a retrospective cross-sectional comparison study.BMC psychiatry · 2014Article
- The prevalence of metabolic syndrome amongst patients with severe mental illness in the community in Hong Kong--a cross sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2013Article
- Interventions for the metabolic syndrome in schizophrenia: a review.Therapeutic advances in endocrinology and metabolism · 2012Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe risk of cardiovascular disease is increased in patients with severe mental illness (SMI) dramatically reducing life expectancy.
methodA real world pragmatic service evaluation of a Well-Being Support Program (WSP) was conducted. This was a four-session package delivered over a one-year period by mental health practitioners that had received additional training in providing physical health assessment and intervention. Patients' physical health was screened and appropriate one-to-one and group intervention was offered.
results212 mental health practitioners were trained in the WSP and 782 patients were enrolled on the program. The majority of our sample was overweight or obese; 66% had a Body Mass Index (BMI) >25. Lifestyle risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) were common and the patients had low self esteem. The average number of formally recorded well-being sessions attended was 2.10. Just under a quarter of those patients enrolled in the program completed. The only cardiovascular risk factor that significantly altered in patients that completed the program was BMI. The qualitative feedback about the program was largely positive.
conclusionsThe need to intervene to enhance the physical health of people with SMI is beyond doubt. Maintaining patient engagement in a physical health improvement program is challenging. Regular comprehensive physical health monitoring is necessary to establish the benefit of intervention and increase life expectancy and well-being in this population.
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