Adopting and maintaining physical activity behaviours in people with severe mental illness: The importance of autonomous motivation

Physical activity can improve the health of people with serious mental illness (SMI) but many are inactive. Adopting theoretically-based research considering the motivational processes linked to the adoption and maintenance of an active lifestyle between different diagnostic groups of people with SMI can assist in understanding physical activity in this group. Within the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and the Trans-Theoretical Model (TTM) (stages of change) frameworks, we investigated differences in motives for physical activity between different diagnostic groups.publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Adopting and maintaining physical activity behaviours in people with severe mental illness: The importance of autonomous motivation journaltitle: Preventive Medicine articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.09.006 content_type: article copyright: Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.status: publishe