Key result
Health promotion activities significantly improved somatic symptoms, anxiety, depression, social distress, and positive optimism compared to regular care in inpatients with chronic mental illness.
Why the study?
The study was conducted to explore how participating in health promotion activities affects the physical, psychological, and social functions of inpatients with chronic mental illness.
Do health promotion activities improve physical, psychological, and social functions in inpatients with chronic mental illness?
RCT (n=120)
Randomly assigned
No
Do health promotion activities improve physical, psychological, and social functions in inpatients with chronic mental illness?
Absolute Event Rate: 2.48% vs 3.2%
p-value: p=<0.001
An 8-week health promotion activity program significantly improved self-reported physical, psychological, and social functions in inpatients with chronic mental illness.
Supports integrating health promotion into inpatient psychiatric care; extends evidence for nonpharmacologic interventions in chronic mental illness.
Objective To explore the impact of the participation of patients with chronic mental illness in health promotion activities on their physical, psychological, and social functions.Methods This study included inpatient with chronic mental illness from a hospital in Eastern Taiwan. According to the experimental research design, the selected subjects were randomly divided into a health promotion group and a control group, with 60 people in each group. The health promotion team conducts health promotion activities twice a week, each for approximately 50 minutes, over the course of eight weeks (16 times in total). The measurement instrument adopts the Adult Mental Health Scale (AMHS) scale. Five experts and scholars in related fields are invited to conduct expert validity.Results Using independent sample t-tests to analyze the changes in the two groups after 8 weeks, the physical, psychological and social problems of the health promotion group were significantly improved compared with the control group.Conclusion Health promotion activities can alleviate the physical illness, anxiety, irritability, depression, and social distress of chronic hospitalized mental patients, and can also increase their positive and optimistic mood. It can provide chronic mental health care institutions to plan patients’ physical activities or exercises.
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Lan et al. (2022) conducted an RCT in Chronic mental illness (n=120). Health promotion activities vs. Regular care was evaluated on Somatic symptom score on the Adult Mental Health Scale (AMHS) (p=<0.001). Health promotion activities significantly improved somatic symptoms, anxiety, depression, social distress, and positive optimism compared to regular care in inpatients with chronic mental illness.
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