Exergaming (physically active video gaming) for mental health service users in a community mental health care setting: an ethnographic observational feasibility study.

Background: People with severe and enduring mental illness experience health inequalities with premature mortality; lifestyle behaviours are known to be contributing factors with low levels of physical activity reported. Facilitating physical activity to help maintain or improve health for those who are disadvantaged is essential. Exergaming (gaming involving physical movement) is increasingly used to improve physical activity across the lifespan and for those with a range clinical conditions; this might offer a way to increase physical activity for those with severe mental illness.

An ethnographic study of the incentives and barriers to lifestyle interventions for people with severe mental illness.

Aims: To explore incentives and barriers to an educational lifestyle intervention for people with severe mental illness.

Background: Social and lifestyle factors along with long-term antipsychotic therapy contribute to poorer physical health in people with severe mental illness. Behavioural lifestyle interventions for this clinical group have shown some benefit.

Incentives and barriers to lifestyle interventions for people with severe mental illness: a narrative synthesis of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies.

Aim: To examine the evidence for incentives and barriers to lifestyle interventions for people with severe mental illness.

Background: People with severe mental illnesses, particularly those with schizophrenia, have poorer physical health than the general population with increased mortality and morbidity rates. Social and lifestyle factors are reported to contribute to this health inequality, though antipsychotic therapy poses additional risk to long-term physical health.