Christian Swann , Darren Wagner , Melanie M. Clarke , Scott G. Goddard , Grace McKeon , Simon Rosenbaum , Stewart A. Vella , Megan Teychenne
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Abstract
Goals are standard practice when promoting physical activity for mental health and wellbeing and for the management of mental health disorders. While there are benefits of setting physical activity goals, there are also known risks, side-effects, and detrimental outcomes. We illustrate how these can potentially exacerbate mental health symptoms. Given the high rates of mental health disorders worldwide, we argue that mental health informed goal setting is needed in physical activity and may be relevant to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. We present recommendations for setting mental health informed physical activity goals to minimise/avoid the risks of exacerbating mental health symptoms as well as maximising benefits for both physical and mental health.
期刊介绍:
The aims of Mental Health and Physical Activity will be: (1) to foster the inter-disciplinary development and understanding of the mental health and physical activity field; (2) to develop research designs and methods to advance our understanding; (3) to promote the publication of high quality research on the effects of physical activity (interventions and a single session) on a wide range of dimensions of mental health and psychological well-being (eg, depression, anxiety and stress responses, mood, cognitive functioning and neurological disorders, such as dementia, self-esteem and related constructs, psychological aspects of quality of life among people with physical and mental illness, sleep, addictive disorders, eating disorders), from both efficacy and effectiveness trials;