Ideas Exchange 2024/25
NHS England states in “The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health” the need to improve the physical health of people SMI. These individuals receive a significant amount of medical, clinical, and day-to-day support to manage their mental illness, but little support to manage their physical health, which is poor and gets progressively worse with age.
There have been few studies assessing lifestyle interventions to improve the health of people with SMI. These have identified multiple barriers to engagement and highlighted the lack of service user engagement and holistic approach to intervention design. This research team wants to develop a cross-disciplinary partnership to find new solutions to address this need.
What will the project involve?
The project will conduct a one day workshop with the following objectives:
- Develop a cross-disciplinary stakeholder network
- Identify barriers and facilitators for people with SMI engaging with lifestyle interventions .
- Consider creative and innovative ways in which we could design a lifestyle intervention (including exercise, nutritional and psychological support, embedded in a framework of behaviour change)
Who are the team and what do they bring?
- Catherine Kelly (Supported Independence) is a specialist care provider for adults with severe mental illness, learning disabilities and other complex needs.
- Maria Pufulete (Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol) is an expert applied health researcher) with experience in co-creation and stakeholder engagement.
- Lucy Beasant, Health Care Evaluation, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol)
- Amberly Bridgen (School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol)
- Stakeholders including patients, clinicians and healthcare experts, managers, researchers working in health research and digital health, and people who work in performing arts.