...Jonathan Glazzard; Anthea Rose; Paul Ogilvie Purpose A peer-mentoring scheme was implemented in a secondary school using a physical activity (PA) intervention to improve mental health outcomes of students who were at risk of developing mental ill health. These students are referred to as mentees...

... (SMI). The purpose of this study was to describe the feasibility of a programme aimed to help people with SMI to eat healthily and be physically active. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methods approach was used. A questionnaire administered to patients in both wards measured acceptability...

...Gavin Breslin; Leeanne Sweeney; Stephen Shannon; Marie Murphy; Donncha Hanna; Mary Meade; Christopher J. Armitage Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the effects of augmenting an evidence-based physical activity intervention within an existing commercial weight loss program to assess...

... of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode . Mental health Inclusion Evaluation Football Soccer Physical activity With the increasing prevalence of mental health problems and thus growing burden on health systems (Mayor of London, 2014 ; McCrone et al...

...Diane Crone; Phil Tyson; Jessica Holley This paper provides a summary of the current state of knowledge on the use of physical activity as an adjunctive treatment in schizophrenia. There is a well documented relationship between physical activity and mental health, which is reflected in numerous...

...Murray Griffin Little is known about the health, well‐being and social interaction benefits of physical activity in adults with a learning disability. This is probably due to the methodological barriers to research and the problem of gaining informed consent from the participants. This paper...