Video consultation and treatment in the community smoking cessation therapy success rates in patients with mental illness: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: Smoking is the single factor with the highest impact on reducing life expectancy of patients with mental illness. Patients experience difficulty in participating in smoking cessation programs but are concerned about the impact of tobacco on their health and finances. Smoking cessation advice videoconferencing might be an alternative to an ordinary in-person consultation.

Outpatients with psychotic disorders need physical health-promoting treatment: A cross-sectional multisite study.

Introduction: Impaired quality of life (QoL) and premature death in patients with primary non-affective psychotic disorders is related to lifestyle-induced comorbidities. Current municipal health-promoting treatment and care do not embrace the challenges of living with psychotic disorders.

Aim: This cross-sectional study aimed to identify the proportion of outpatients diagnosed with primary psychotic disorders who need health-promoting treatment and care, and who receive municipal health-promoting interventions.

Cold water swimming as an add-on treatment for depression: a feasibility study.

Purpose: Cold water swimming (CWS) involves taking a regular dip in cold, natural waters throughout the winter. The evidence for the health benefits of CWS has been anecdotal, or from small-sample size studies. The available literature reports that CWS abolishes general tiredness, improves mood, boosts self-esteem and improves general well-being.