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The feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of exercise therapy in transdiagnostic mental health services.

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Severe mental illness
Psychotic Disorders
Bipolar Disorders
Personality Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Depressive Disorders
Psychosis
Mental Health - Schizophrenia
Mental Health - Psychosis and personality disorders
Mental Health - Anxiety
Registration Number
ACTRN12623001118695
Lead Sponsor
The University of Western Australia
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
50
Inclusion Criteria

Adult (18-65) mental health consumers, engaged with an outpatient, hospital mental health team and referred to exercise services.
Diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder (e.g., psychotic, bipolar, personality, depressive, or anxiety disorder) and be deemed to have sufficient capacity to provide informed consent.; Adult (18-65) mental health consumers, engaged with an outpatient, hospital mental health team and referred to exercise services.
Diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder (e.g., psychotic, bipolar, personality, depressive, or anxiety disorder) and be deemed to have sufficient capacity to provide informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria includes any circumstances that may impact on capacity to provide informed consent, when increasing physical activity does not align with treatment goals, or in which the exercise interventions are a safety risk for participants, including:
•a substantial cognitive disorder/deficit (consent),
•an involuntary community treatment order (consent),
•compulsive exercise behaviours (treatment goals),
•a diagnosis of a feeding or eating disorder (treatment goals),
•unstable or untreated cardiovascular disease (safety), or
•physical disability that will limit safety in exercise participation (safety).

Informal exercise history will not impact a consumer’s recruitment into this study; however, participants will be excluded if they have had a previous successful engagement with the community Exercise Physiology program provided at the mental health services within the previous 12 months (success defined by an engagement of a minimum 12-weeks with successful exercise discharge plan).

Participants will be excluded from participation in this trial if they have any reported history, or any clinical indication of compulsive exercise behaviours, or feeding-and eating disorders, as the goals of exercise therapy for these participants are different to the goals of exercise therapies provided in this research trial. These two exclusion criteria will be determined by information obtained from the participant referrer and intake assessment.
; Exclusion criteria includes any circumstances that may impact on capacity to provide informed consent, when increasing physical activity does not align with treatment goals, or in which the exercise interventions are a safety risk for participants, including:
•a substantial cognitive disorder/deficit (consent),
•an involuntary community treatment order (consent),
•compulsive exercise behaviours (treatment goals),
•a diagnosis of a feeding or eating disorder (treatment goals),
•unstable or untreated cardiovascular disease (safety), or
•physical disability that will limit safety in exercise participation (safety).

Informal exercise history will not impact a consumer’s recruitment into this study; however, participants will be excluded if they have had a previous successful engagement with the community Exercise Physiology program provided at the mental health services within the previous 12 months (success defined by an engagement of a minimum 12-weeks with successful exercise discharge plan).

Participants will be excluded from participation in this trial if they have any reported history, or any clinical indication of compulsive exercise behaviours, or feeding-and eating disorders, as the goals of exercise therapy for these participants are different to the goals of exercise therapies provided in this research trial. These two exclusion criteria will be determined by information obtained from the participant referrer and intake assessment.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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