Purpose: People with severe mental illness are sedentary, have high cardio-metabolic risks
and significantly reduced life expectancy. Despite considerable data regarding positive …

Purpose People with severe mental illness (SMI) experience poor physical health and
premature mortality, contributed significantly by modifiable lifestyle risk factors such as poor …

Background Exercise interventions are increasingly incorporated in the management of
severe mental illness; however, best practice screening and outcome monitoring for this …

Major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are severe mental illnesses. Despite
receiving psychopharmacological and psychosocial treatments, about half of patients …

Background: Exercise interventions are efficacious in reducing cardiometabolic risk and
improving symptoms in people with severe mental illness, yet evidence guiding the …

PURPOSE: People with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorders have a higher risk of
morbidity and premature mortality compared to the general population in part due to …

Introduction Individuals with schizophrenia are more susceptible to cardiometabolic health
risks due to increased sedentary behaviour. Exercise has been shown to modify …

Physical activity (PA) may be therapeutic for people with severe mental illness (SMI) who
generally have low PA and experience numerous life style-related medical complications …

Background Exercise is recommended to protect physical health among people with severe
mental illness and holds the potential to facilitate long-term recovery. An inclusive exercise …

Background Despite elevated risk of cardiometabolic disease among those with serious
mental illness, and widespread recognition that physical activity interventions are required …