Interventions to improve lifestyle and quality-of-life in patients with concurrent mental illness and substance use

Abstract

This programme shows promise in addressing health promotion for these patients and can easily be integrated into contemporary treatments.

Health-Related Quality of Life in Male Patients under Treatment for Substance Use Disorders with and without Major Depressive Disorder: Influence in Clinical Course at One-Year Follow-Up

“…Future studies should further explore the specific influence of depressive symptoms on the recovery of the patient with dual disorder. In sum, our results confirm previous observations regarding the complications presented by patients with dual disorders as a diagnostic entity [ 1 , 12 , 14 ] and provide evidence regarding the need for a global therapeutic approach for patients with dual depression, beyond the mere approach to the typical affective symptoms of MDD.…”

“…Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is one of the constructs with more interest in recent years as an indicator of treatment results in patients with different mental disorders. These include substance use disorder (SUD), severe mental disorders, and comorbidity among them, known as dual disorders [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. Both from the field of research and from clinical practice, different indicators of success of the treatment or recovery of the patient are currently being investigated, beyond the simple reduction of psychiatric symptoms and withdrawal from substance use [ 4 , 5 ].…”

“…In addition, we will explore differences and possible relationships based on the presence/absence of depressive symptoms in patients with SUD and MDD in order to identify their contribution both in the dimensions of quality of life and in the evolution during one year of follow-up. This study aims to provide data that encourage the adoption of an integrated recovery-oriented model that considers wider outcomes than abstinence as the main goal of treatment [ 1 , 15 , 18 ].…”

Health Beliefs and Experiences of a Health Promotion Intervention Among Psychiatric Patients With Substance Use: An Interview Study

“…It should be considered, whether the health beliefs of selected patients were different from the beliefs of non-selected patients and thus might have had different experiences of the intervention. However, as indicated by Table 2, patients interviewed presumably did not differ from all intervention patients (Juel et al 2016), e.g. non-selected patients could not be characterized as suffering from more severe mental illnesses or cognitive disabilities.…”

“…The interview questions were then constructed around these dimensions (see Table 1 for an outline of the interview guide). (Juel et al 2016).…”