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Managing Weight in Persons Living with Severe Mental Illness in Community Settings: A Review of Strategies Used in Community Interventions

Carol L. Galletly Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
, JD, PhD &
Leslie E. Murray University of Iowa, School of Psychiatry, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
, MPH, MD
Pages 660-668 | Published online: 08 Oct 2009

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John W. Shank, Yoshitaka Iwasaki, Catherine Coyle & Emily S. Messina. (2015) Experiences and Meanings of Leisure, Active Living, and Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Community-Dwelling Adults with Mental Illness. American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation 18:2, pages 129-151.
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Colleen Cunningham, Kathleen Peters & Judy Mannix. (2013) Physical Health Inequities in People with Severe Mental Illness: Identifying Initiatives for Practice Change. Issues in Mental Health Nursing 34:12, pages 855-862.
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Ellis E. Opusunju, Patrick A. Palmieri, Karen A. Dominguez-Cancino, Sebastian Jaque-Ortiz & Diane K. Whitehead. (2022) Improving the Physical Health of Psychiatric Hospital Residents: An Evaluation of an Obesity Education Program for Mental Health Professionals. Healthcare 10:10, pages 1851.
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Eva Guérin, Jean-Pierre Dupuis, Jean-Daniel Jacob & Denis Prud’homme. (2019) Incorporating a Physical Activity Program into an Assertive Community Treatment Team: Impact and Strategies. Community Mental Health Journal 55:8, pages 1293-1297.
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Brandy M. Mechling & Tamatha Arms. (2019) Losing to Gain: The Effects of a Healthy Lifestyle Intervention on the Physical and Psychosocial Well-being of Clients in a Community-based Mental Health Setting. Community Mental Health Journal 55:4, pages 608-614.
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Judit Bort-Roig, Laia Briones-Buixassa, Mireia Felez-Nobrega, Anna Guàrdia-Sancho, Mercè Sitjà-Rabert & Anna Puig-Ribera. (2019) Sedentary behaviour associations with health outcomes in people with severe mental illness: a systematic review. European Journal of Public Health.
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Jothimani Gurusamy, Sailaxmi Gandhi, Dinakaran Damodharan, Venkatasubramanian Ganesan & Marimuthu Palaniappan. (2018) Exercise, diet and educational interventions for metabolic syndrome in persons with schizophrenia: A systematic review. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 36, pages 73-85.
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Helen Quirk, Helen Crank, Deborah Harrop, Emma Hock & Robert Copeland. (2017) Understanding the experience of initiating community-based physical activity and social support by people with serious mental illness: a systematic review using a meta-ethnographic approach. Systematic Reviews 6:1.
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John A. Naslund, Karen L. Whiteman, Gregory J. McHugo, Kelly A. Aschbrenner, Lisa A. Marsch & Stephen J. Bartels. (2017) Lifestyle interventions for weight loss among overweight and obese adults with serious mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis. General Hospital Psychiatry 47, pages 83-102.
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Natalie Parletta, Yousef Aljeesh & Bernhard T. Baune. (2016) Health Behaviors, Knowledge, Life Satisfaction, and Wellbeing in People with Mental Illness across Four Countries and Comparisons with Normative Sample. Frontiers in Psychiatry 7.
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Svetlana Bogomolova, Dorota Zarnowiecki, Amy Wilson, Andrea Fielder, Nicholas Procter, Catherine Itsiopoulos, Kerin O’Dea, John Strachan, Matt Ballestrin, Andrew Champion & Natalie Parletta. (2016) Dietary intervention for people with mental illness in South Australia. Health Promotion International, pages daw055.
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Amanda J. Baxter, Meredith G. Harris, Yasmin Khatib, Traolach S. Brugha, Heidrun Bien & Kamaldeep Bhui. (2018) Reducing excess mortality due to chronic disease in people with severe mental illness: Meta-review of health interventions. British Journal of Psychiatry 208:4, pages 322-329.
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Jesse Gates, Eóin Killackey, Lisa Phillips & Mario Álvarez-Jiménez. (2015) Mental health starts with physical health: current status and future directions of non-pharmacological interventions to improve physical health in first-episode psychosis. The Lancet Psychiatry 2:8, pages 726-742.
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Mary Weber. (2010) The Importance of Exercise for Individuals with Chronic Mental Illness. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 48:10, pages 35-40.
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