Feasibility of "Mer Aktiv"

Summary

The Mer aktiv rehabilitaion project aims to develop and evaluate a sustainable lifestyle intervention for individuals with mental ill health. By combining clinical experience, current evidence, and interprofessional collaboration between outpatient psychiatric services and community stakeholders, the project seeks to create conditions for a more active and balanced everyday life for individuals with mental ill health. The Mer Aktiv intervention focuses on breaking social isolation, promoting activity, and strengthening participants' empowerment through healthy lifestyle behaviours, group cohesion, and community-based activities. The aim of the intervention is to increase participation in everyday life and in society, as well as to support participants in remaining active after the intervention has ended. An increased level of activity, in which participants feel a sense of belonging within society, creates conditions for individuals to gradually move closer to the labour market over time. The project examines the feasibility and relevance of the intervention as a collaborative initiative between outpatient psychiatric care and community stakeholders, with the aim of refining the intervention and identifying potential barriers to implementation.

The aim is to develop and evaluate a multiprofessional lifestyle intervention for individuals receiving outpatient psychiatric care.

Conditions

• Mental Ill-health

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mer aktiv rehabilitation - A group-based lifestyle intervention within psychiatric care

Mer aktiv is a multiprofessional group-based intervention developed to meet a clinical need within outpatient psychiatric services and refined through collaboration among occupational therapists, physiotherapists, care workers, dietitians, and health coordinators across several clinics. The content of the group-based intervention Mer Aktiv includes: * Psychoeducation on lifestyle habits as part of active recovery (based on the six pillars of health), with a focus on physical activity, diet, sleep, stress management, and social connectedness. * Information about community-based actors and resources (integrated into Training in activity). * Training in activity (including physical and social activities) aimed at promoting a more active, meaningful, and balanced everyday life. * Planning and facilitation of next steps in an active rehabilitation process.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fontänhuset Varberg (Fountain house)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Träffpunkten Halmstad (Halmstad municipality)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Göteborg University

  collaborator OTHER

• Adult Psychiatry Region Halland

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Lund University

  collaborator OTHER

• Halmstad University

  collaborator OTHER

• Kristianstad University

  collaborator OTHER

• Region Halland

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Maria Lönn · Region Halland Psychiatry

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

64 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2026-04-20

Primary Completion

2027-12-01

Completion

2028-12-01