Exercise Psychology Unit
Unit Coordinator: Guy Faulkner, PhD.
Faculty of Physical Education and Health
55 Harbord Street,
Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 2W6
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Lifestyle interventions to improve the physical health of people with severe mental illness: identifying barriers to uptake (2005-2006)
- Funding Source and Program Name: National Prevention Research Initiative [www.mrc.org.uk]
- PI: Keith Lloyd. CIs: Aitken; Bidmead; Faulkner; Macleod; Rance; Rapport; Williams.
Background: People with severe mental illness (SMI) are a socially excluded, high risk group for developing smoking, alcohol, physical inactivity and obesity related diseases.
Objective: To investigate barriers and opportunities to promoting uptake of positive lifestyle interventions among SMI populations.
Research question: How do people with SMI, their carers and professionals, perceive physical health-improving lifestyle changes compared to other aspects of wellbeing such as psychiatric symptom control?
Design: Mixed methodology qualitative and quantitative study using questionnaires and focus groups
Setting: South Wales and South West England.
Benefits: Better targeting of more generalisable preventive interventions in a high risk group.