The effectiveness of health behavior change interventions in managing physical health in people with a psychotic illness: A systematic review.

Purpose: People living with psychotic illness disproportionately experience more comorbidities and have a markedly shorter life expectancy compared to the general population. This review evaluates the effectiveness of health behavior change interventions in improving health outcomes in this group.

Design And Methods: All studies included objective physical health measures or health behaviors as the main outcome measures and experimental design with baseline and follow-up quantitative data.