Background: Cigarette smoking and lifestyle factors underlying overweight/obesity (such as
unhealthy diet and physical inactivity) appear to play a major role in the excess medical …

Background The use of atypical antipsychotics which currently form the primary choice
pharmacotherapy for several mental health conditions have been linked to cardiovascular …

BackgroundThe relationship between mental and physical disorders is well established, but
there is less consensus as to the nature of their joint association with disability, in part …

Mental health nurses have a key role in improving the physical health of people with a
serious mental illness, however, there have been few studies of their attitudes or the extent …

People diagnosed with a mental illness experience poorer physical health than the general
population. Nurses have been identified for their potential role in addressing physical health …

Background Albeit obesity and mood disorders frequently co-occur, few studies examined
the impacts of this co-occurrence. The aim was to compare individuals with obesity and …

BackgroundIn the UK and other high-income countries, life expectancy in people with
schizophrenia is 20% lower than in the general population. AimsTo examine the quality of …

BackgroundPhysical morbidity is a potent risk factor for depression onset and clearly
increases with age, yet prior research has often found depressive disorders to decrease with …

The wide‐ranging benefits of physical activity for consumers with mental illness are
acknowledged within the mental health nursing field; however, this is not commonly …

People with severe mental illness (SMI) have considerable unmet physical health needs
and an increased risk of early mortality. This cross-sectional survey utilized the Physical …