Changes in physical and psychiatric health after a multidisciplinary lifestyle enhancing treatment for inpatients with severe mental illness: The MULTI study I

Patients hospitalized with severe mental illness (SMI) often have an unhealthy lifestyle. Changing their sedentary behavior and deficiency in physical activity is challenging and effective interventions are lacking. We evaluated changes in sedentary behavior, physical activity, metabolic health and psychotic symptoms after 18  months of Multidisciplinary Lifestyle enhancing Treatment for Inpatients with SMI (MULTI) compared to treatment as usual (TAU) and explored mediation by change in total activity.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - July 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jeroen Deenik, Diederik E. Tenback, Erwin C.P.M. Tak, Femke Rutters, Ingrid J.M. Hendriksen, Peter N. van Harten Source Type: research