About this trial
The Mer aktiv rehabilitaion project aims to develop and evaluate a sustainable lifestyle intervention for individuals with mental ill health. By combining clinical experience, current evidence, and interprofessional collaboration between outpatient psychiatric services and community stakeholders, the project seeks to create conditions for a more active and balanced everyday life for individuals with mental ill health. The Mer Aktiv intervention focuses on breaking social isolation, promoting activity, and strengthening participants' empowerment through healthy lifestyle behaviours, group cohesion, and community-based activities. The aim of the intervention is to increase participation in everyday life and in society, as well as to support participants in remaining active after the intervention has ended. An increased level of activity, in which participants feel a sense of belonging within society, creates conditions for individuals to gradually move closer to the labour market over time. The project examines the feasibility and relevance of the intervention as a collaborative initiative between outpatient psychiatric care and community stakeholders, with the aim of refining the intervention and identifying potential barriers to implementation.
The aim is to develop and evaluate a multiprofessional lifestyle intervention for individuals receiving outpatient psychiatric care.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Enrolled in adult outpatient psychiatric care
Not engaged in any form of organized occupation, such as employment, studies, or work-based rehabilitation
Physical exercise/structured physical activity outside the home less than once per week
Participation in organized leisure activities less than once per week
Disqualifiers
Inability to attend sessions twice per week (e.g., due to distance or lack of transportation)
Ongoing individual psychotherapy
Current or planned participation in another group-based intervention
Ongoing substance use disorder, acute suicidality, or active psychosis (assessed based on the individual's capacity to manage symptoms and ability to participate in a group setting)
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Mer aktiv rehabilitation - A group-based lifestyle intervention within psychiatric care
Treatment groups
Locations
Sponsors and collaborators
Region Halland
Lead sponsor
Fontänhuset Varberg (Fountain house)
Collaborator
Träffpunkten Halmstad (Halmstad municipality)
Collaborator
Göteborg University
Collaborator
Adult Psychiatry Region Halland
Collaborator
Lund University
Collaborator
Halmstad University
Collaborator
Kristianstad University
Collaborator