A psychiatric rehabilitation approach to weight loss

This is a current project.

Description

People with serious mental illness are at a greater risk for obesity due to poverty, limited access to health care, poor health behaviors and the side effects of psychiatric medications. This project examines the efficacy of a weight loss program for people with serious mental illness. The program innovation combines evidenced based weight reduction strategies with psychiatric rehabilitation theory and principles in a community based setting.

Obesity is a major threat to public health in the United States and is an even greater problem for people with serious mental. In examining the efficacy of a weight loss program for people with serious mental illness, this project has the potential to provide a model for addressing the public health issue of obesity in community-based mental health service settings

Project Administration

Joseph Donnelly, principal investigator

Project Contact

Joseph E. Donnelly, Ph.D.
Energy Balance Laboratory
1301 Sunnyside Avenue, Room 100
Lawrence, KS 66045-7567
jprofessor@ku.edu
(785) 864-0797
fax (785) 864-5323

This is a project of:

Energy Balance Laboratory

Funded by :

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)


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