NHS Health Scotland
 
Outcome Indicators
 
1.3 Activities promoting healthy lifestyle behaviour will contribute to increasing knowledge, awareness, motivation and access to services and facilities and facilitate behaviour change.

 

Rationale
There is little highly processed evidence of effective health improvement interventions for smoking cessation, weight management and physical activity designed for people experiencing mental illness. NHS Health Scotland has commissioned a rapid evidence review and a Scottish mapping exercise on effective health improvement interventions for smoking cessation, healthy weight and physical activity for people experiencing mental health problems.

Informed by reviews of effectiveness evidence, NICE public health guidance 06 Behaviour change at population, community and individual levels sets out a set of generic principles and recommended actions to guide the planning and delivery and evaluation of public health activities to change health related behaviour at the individual, community or population level. The NHS Health Scotland Commentary on this public health guidance supported these action points subject, where appropriate, to adaptation to fit Scottish organisational arrangements.[1]

Informed by reviews of effectiveness evidence, NICE public health guidance 16 Occupational therapy interventions and physical activity interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care recommended that tailored exercise, physical activity and walking schemes are offered in collaboration with older people in their carers. The NHS Health Scotland Commentary supported these recommendations subject, where appropriate, to adaptation to fit Scottish organisational arrangements.[2]

There is a need to ensure that health promoting activities are implemented in a mentally healthy way (for example, in relation to physical activity and children and young people[3]).

Source:        

  1. NHS Health Scotland (2007). Health Scotland Commentary on NICE Public Health Guidance: Behaviour change at population, community and individual levels. NHS Health Scotland: Edinburgh.

  2. NHS Health Scotland (2009). Scottish Perspective on NICE public health guidance 16: Occupational therapy interventions and physical activity interventions to promote the metal wellbeing of older adults in primary care and residential care. NHS Health Scotland: Edinburgh.

  3. Whitelaw S, Swift J, Goodwin A & Clark D (2008). Physical activity and mental health: the role of physical activity in promoting mental wellbeing and preventing mental health problems: an evidence briefing. NHS Health Scotland: Edinburgh.

  4. Evidence from topic specific logic models.