'Mind and body' : a lifestyle programme for people on antipsychotic medication
Jones, Amanda, Benson, Anthony, Griffiths, Sarah, Berk, Michael and Dodd, Seetal 2009, 'Mind and body' : a lifestyle programme for people on antipsychotic medication, Journal of evaluation of clinical practice, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 276-280, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.00993.x.
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'Mind and body' : a lifestyle programme for people on antipsychotic medication
Rationale Psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia and their treatments have consequences in terms of lifestyle, diet and weight. Aims and objectives ‘Mind and Body’ is a 10-week programme of weekly sessions aimed to improve the health status of people treated with second generation antipsychotic medications.
Methods The programme focuses on a range of lifestyle strategies including diet and exercise and was conducted at a Community Health Centre by professionally qualified staff. Between 2002 and 2006, 50 participants enrolled in, and 30 completed the programme. Measures of body weight, health status (Short Form-36) and blood markets (plasma glucose, haemoglobin A1c and lipid profile) were collected at commencement and completion of the programme.
Results A modest improvement was demonstrated in mean values for the majority of measures collected.
Conclusions A lifestyle program for people treated with antipsychotic medications is achievable and may be worthwhile although gains may be modest.
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eng
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.00993.x
Field of Research
119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective
970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences
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