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Effectiveness of Short-Term Lifestyle Modification on Reducing Body- Weight-Related Parameters in Persons with Severe Mental Illness: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Indian J Psychol Med
July 2023
Dept. of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (INI), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Background: Persons with severe mental illness (SMI) reportedly have a high mortality rate due to metabolic syndrome (MS). However, lifestyle modification (LM) offers effective management of some components of MS. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of LM in reducing body-weight-related parameters in SMIs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProfile of recipients of holistic health counselling in a psychiatric OPD in South India.
Int J Soc Psychiatry
May 2021
Department Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (INI), Bengaluru, India.
Background Of The Study: Persons with mental illness (PwMI) are prone to weight gain as a side effect of antipsychotics. Health counselling on diet, physical activity, medication adherence, expressed emotions and technology use, by health professionals, can help in managing these side-effects.
Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the pre-counselling profile of the subjects such as body mass index (BMI), diet, physical activity, medication adherence, expressed emotions and technology use among PwMI; to attend the Holistic Health Clinic as part of follow-up services in the psychiatry Outpatient Department (OPD) as well as to find correlation and association between the study variables.