Physical activity participation in people with severe mental illness: The real challenge

Abstract

The third report from The Lancet Psychiatry Physical Health Commission is refreshingly blunt about the problem: people living with severe mental illness (SMI) face premature mortality, essentially from preventable physical diseases linked to modifiable risk factors such as tobacco use, low physical activity, poor diet quality and disrupted sleep. 1 What has changed since the 2019 Commission is not the strength of the evidence on benefits (that argument is settled)