Mobile Intervention Appears To Be As Effective As 12-Month Group Intervention For Assisting Weight Loss In Young People With SMI, Researchers Say

Psychiatric News (7/6) reports, “Young adults with serious mental illness (SMI) who are overweight or obese experienced similar weight loss and cardiorespiratory fitness improvements after participating in a 12-month group intervention as those who received one-on-one mobile health (mHealth) coaching for 12 months,” investigators concluded in a study involving “150 adults with SMI aged 18 to 35 years with a body mass index ≥25 kg/m2 who were receiving services at four community mental health centers in the northeastern” US. The findings of the randomized study were published online June 30 in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.