Results of a Qualitative Study Aimed at Building a Programme to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in People with Severe Mental Illness

Marie Costa, Nicolas Meunier-Beillard, Elise Guillermet, Lucie Cros, Vincent Demassiet, Wendy Hude, Anna Baleige, Jean-François Besnard, Jean-Luc Roelandt and Frédéric Denis
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Marie Costa: EPSM Lille-Métropole, Centre Collaborateur de l’OMS Pour la Recherche et la Formation en Santé Mentale, 211 Rue Salengro, 59260 Hellemmes, France
Nicolas Meunier-Beillard: CHU F. Mitterrand, Délégation à la Recherche Clinique et à l’Innovation, 21000 Dijon, France
Elise Guillermet: Instance Régionale d’Education et Promotion de la Santé, 76100 Rouen, France
Lucie Cros: Instance Régionale d’Education et Promotion de la Santé, 76100 Rouen, France
Vincent Demassiet: EPSM Lille-Métropole, Centre Collaborateur de l’OMS Pour la Recherche et la Formation en Santé Mentale, 211 Rue Salengro, 59260 Hellemmes, France
Wendy Hude: EPSM Lille-Métropole, Centre Collaborateur de l’OMS Pour la Recherche et la Formation en Santé Mentale, 211 Rue Salengro, 59260 Hellemmes, France
Anna Baleige: EA 75-05 Education Ethique Santé, Faculté de Médecine, Université François-Rabelais Tours, 37032 Tours, France
Jean-François Besnard: Centre Hospitalier de Fougères, 35300 Fougères, France
Jean-Luc Roelandt: EPSM Lille-Métropole, Centre Collaborateur de l’OMS Pour la Recherche et la Formation en Santé Mentale, 211 Rue Salengro, 59260 Hellemmes, France
Frédéric Denis: EPSM Lille-Métropole, Centre Collaborateur de l’OMS Pour la Recherche et la Formation en Santé Mentale, 211 Rue Salengro, 59260 Hellemmes, France

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: People with severe mental illness (PSMI) have a shorter life expectancy and are more likely to have cardiovascular disease than the general population. Patients, carers, psychiatric professionals and primary care providers can all play a role in increasing PSMI physical health. The present qualitative exploratory study aimed to explore the views of these four populations as part of the multi-phase COPsyCAT project, whose objective is to build and test a cardiovascular risk prevention programme for PSMI. Overall, 107 people participated in the study’s 16 focus groups, which were transcribed and analysed in a thematic analysis. With a view to building the health promotion programme, major themes identified in the corpus were translated into a list of needs as follows: communication, information, training and support. Results show that it is essential to improve communication between all the different stakeholders in mental health. The greatest challenge facing this programme will be to adapt it to the needs and expectations of PSMI while facilitating work between the various mental health stakeholders. Simple and inexpensive actions could be taken to improve the cardiovascular health of PSMI and will be experimented with during the programme’s feasibility study which will start in September 2022.

Keywords: qualitative study; cardiovascular risk; psychiatry; mental health; carers; mental health service users; severe mental illness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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