Evaluating the Effectiveness of the GILL eHealth Intervention to Improve Physical Health and Lifestyle Behaviours in Patients With Severe Mental Illness
Improving Physical Health and Lifestyle Behaviors in Patients With Serious Mental Illness: a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial on the Effectiveness of the Nurse-led GILL eHealth Intervention
Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
258 participants
May 30, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the nurse-led GILL (Gezondheid in Lichaam en Leefstijl) eHealth intervention in patients with serious mental illness (SMI), compared to usual care. Expected is that the GILL eHealth intervention will be more effective than usual care in improving physical health and lifestyle behaviors. To evaluate this, we will perform a cluster randomized controlled trial with an embedded process evaluation of the implementation of the GILL intervention. 258 adult patients with serious mental illness and a body mass index of 27 or higher (overweight/obesity) will be included. The GILL eHealth intervention consists of two complementary modules for (a) somatic screening and (b) lifestyle promotion, resulting in a personalized somatic treatment and lifestyle plan. Trained mental health nurses and clinical nurse specialists will implement the intervention within the multidisciplinary treatment context, and will guide and support the patients in the promotion of their somatic health, including cardiometabolic risk management. The intervention will be compared to usual care, which includes treatment according to national guidelines. The outcome measures will be metabolic syndrome severity (primary), fitness, physical activity, lifestyle behaviors, quality of life, recovery, psychosocial functioning, health related self-efficacy and health care utilization after 1 year. The process evaluation focuses on the feasibility of the eHealth intervention, its acceptability for patients and health care providers (mainly mental health nurses and clinical nurse specialists), and barriers/facilitators to implementation.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria5
- Meet the criteria of severe mental illness
- Aged from 18 to 65 years
- Body mass index (BMI) ≥ 27
- Access and ability to use internet
- Able and willing to sign informed consent
Exclusion Criteria4
- Contra-indications (to be assessed by the treating physician/psychiatrist) for participation due to acute psychiatric crisis or severe somatic diseases
- Subjects with a cognitive impairment sufficient to interfere with their ability to provide informed consent, complete study questionnaires, or participate in the intervention
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women at the time of inclusion
- Subject not able to communicate in the Dutch language
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Interventions
The aim of the successfully pilot-tested GILL eHealth intervention is to support mental health nurses and clinical nurse specialists in structured somatic screening and lifestyle promotion. The GILL eHealth intervention consists of two parts. Part one is OurGILL which focuses on systematic somatic screening and provides an overview of all somatic abnormalities. It promotes the prevention, early recognition and treatment of somatic problems. The second part is MyGILL. It provides the basis for drawing up a personalized lifestyle plan. The result of MyGILL is an overview of the performance of patients in different lifestyle areas. The eHealth intervention consists of an individual internet environment and is also supported by an app for mobile devices.
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NCT05533749