Supporting Physical Activity through Co-production in people with severe mental illness (SPACES)
SPACES is a research project whose aim is to develop an intervention to help people with severe mental ill health to become more active. The project is a collaboration between researchers and people with lived experience of severe mental ill health. Researchers from Bangor University, York St John, University of York, Leeds, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam and King’s College London along with Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS have worked with people with lived experience to develop an intervention to help people become more active
Project objectives
To work collaboratively with people with lived experience of SMI, carers, and healthcare staff to:
Identify factors that inhibit physical activity and enable sedentary behaviour in people with SMI.
Identify features of effective interventions that have been tested in the NHS through systematic reviews, patient survey, and workshops/focus groups with patients, carers and healthcare staff.
co-produce an intervention for people with SMI that addresses these factors, through selecting appropriate intervention targets and behaviour change techniques (BCTs)
To refine and optimise the design of the intervention and the trial design and procedures, through a randomised controlled feasibility trial.
To evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the intervention, through a full-scale randomised controlled trial.
To understand the barriers and enablers of implementation, describe experience of intervention, and identify optimal implementation strategies to embed and deliver the intervention in NHS services.
To disseminate the knowledge generated throughout the project such that it informs practice and policy, ensuring that people with lived experience of SMI are involved at every stage.
Here’s a link to a youtube about SPACES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9vwrPZENxY&t=2s