Health Promotion Programs for Persons with Serious Mental Illness: What Works?

February 15, 2012
This report, by researchers Stephen Bartels, M.D. and Rebecca Desilets, was complied for the Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) and funded by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Health Resources and Services Administration. The researchers reviewed studies on non-pharmacological lifestyle interventions aimed at reducing obesity and improving fitness for individuals with serious mental illness. They concluded that lifestyle interventions to help people with serious mental illness lose weight are more successful when the intervention lasts longer than three months and is designed to focus on increasing physical activity.
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