Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Active Lifestyle in Schizophrenia: How to Combine Exercise and Therapy in Practice?

Active Lifestyle in Schizophrenia: How to Combine Exercise and Therapy in Practice?

Raquel Simões de Almeida, António Marques
Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 26
ISBN13: 9781668460405|ISBN10: 1668460408|EISBN13: 9781668460412
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6040-5.ch005
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

de Almeida, Raquel Simões, and António Marques. "Active Lifestyle in Schizophrenia: How to Combine Exercise and Therapy in Practice?." Combining Exercise and Psychotherapy to Treat Mental Health, edited by Lara Carneiro and Felipe Schuch, IGI Global, 2024, pp. 114-139. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6040-5.ch005

APA

de Almeida, R. S. & Marques, A. (2024). Active Lifestyle in Schizophrenia: How to Combine Exercise and Therapy in Practice?. In L. Carneiro & F. Schuch (Eds.), Combining Exercise and Psychotherapy to Treat Mental Health (pp. 114-139). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6040-5.ch005

Chicago

de Almeida, Raquel Simões, and António Marques. "Active Lifestyle in Schizophrenia: How to Combine Exercise and Therapy in Practice?." In Combining Exercise and Psychotherapy to Treat Mental Health, edited by Lara Carneiro and Felipe Schuch, 114-139. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6040-5.ch005

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a mental illness with intense effects on a person's life. In addition to the psychiatric symptoms, patients with schizophrenia generally have multiple somatic comorbidities, such as cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. High prevalence of an unhealthy lifestyle (smoking habits, poor diets, sedentarism) contributes to the increased risk in these patients. Even though schizophrenia treatment focuses on medication in conjunction with talking therapies, it is essential to address lifestyle choices. Nowadays there is a large body of evidence that suggests that physical activity and exercise can help improve not only schizophrenia patients' physical health but also their mental and psychological wellbeing. This chapter addresses the guidelines for physical activity and exercise interventions for schizophrenia, presenting some programs which combine exercise and therapies to treat schizophrenia, including some novel digital approaches. This chapter also gives some recommendations for an active lifestyle clinical integration providing a literature review on the subject.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.