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.