Feasibility of "Mer Aktiv"

NCT07556575 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 2025-08744-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The Mer aktiv rehabilitaion project aims to develop and evaluate a sustainable lifestyle intervention for individuals with mental ill health. By combining clinical experience, current evidence, and interprofessional collaboration between outpatient psychiatric services and community stakeholders, the project seeks to create conditions for a more active and balanced everyday life for individuals with mental ill health. The Mer Aktiv intervention focuses on breaking social isolation, promoting activity, and strengthening participants' empowerment through healthy lifestyle behaviours, group cohesion, and community-based activities. The aim of the intervention is to increase participation in everyday life and in society, as well as to support participants in remaining active after the intervention has ended. An increased level of activity, in which participants feel a sense of belonging within society, creates conditions for individuals to gradually move closer to the labour market over time. The project examines the feasibility and relevance of the intervention as a collaborative initiative between outpatient psychiatric care and community stakeholders, with the aim of refining the intervention and identifying potential barriers to implementation. The aim is to develop and evaluate a multiprofessional lifestyle intervention for individuals receiving outpatient psychiatric care.

Conditions

Mental Ill-health

Keywords

Feasability; Mental-ill health; Lifestyle; Group-intervention; Psychiatric services

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Level of daily occupations

  Level of daily occupations will be collected using the occupational therapy assessment instrument Satisfaction with Daily Occupations (SDO-13) (13 questions conserning daily occupations distributed across the domains work/studies, leisure, home and maintenance, and self-care: response options Yes or No, Range 0-13)(13 indicates the highest level of activity). Data-collection with SDO-13 at Pre, Post and 6 months. Data-collection with a 5-item questionnaire "Occupational level over time" at 1 years follow up (developed by the research group with inspiration from SDO-13 and specified inclusion criteria)(response options Yes or No)(Change in daily occupations from recruitment until 1 year)(Change from No to Yes indicates an improvement) in (Q1-2) employment/studies, (Q3) structured rehabilitation (Q4) physical exercise, (Q5) leisure activiries.

  Pre-post, 6 months, 1 year

• Satisfaction with daily occupations

  Satisfaction with Daily Occupations (SDO-13) will be collected using the occupational therapy assessment instrument Satisfaction with Daily Occupations (SDO-13) (13 questions conserning daily occupations distributed across the domains work/studies, leisure, home and maintenance, and self-care: response options Yes or No; satisfaction with daily occupations based on the same 13 questions: 7-point scale, 1 = worst imaginable satisfaction, 7 = best imaginable satisfaction.

  Pre-Post, 6 months.

• Physical activity and sedentary behaviour

  Physical activity and sedentary behaviour (3-item Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare). To measure physical activity, the indicator questions developed by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare will be used (3 questions; number of minutes spent in vigorous physical activity and everyday physical activities, respectively, as well as an estimate of the time spent sitting). Increase in minutes in physical activities is better, decrease in time spent sitting is better. The three items are analysed seperatly.

  Pre-Post, 6 months, 1 year.

Secondary Outcomes (6)

• Occupational balance

  Pre-Post, 6 months, 1 year.

• Anxiety

  Pre-Post, 6 months, 1 year.

• Health / Depression

  Pre-post, 6 months, 1 year.

• Sleep health

  Pre-post, 6 months, 1 year.

• Recovery

  Pre-post, 6 months, 1 year.

Study Arms (1)

Multiprofessional lifestyle group-intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

An 11 week group intervention (20 group sessions in total), including individual asessement before and individual follow-up after intervention. Furthermore a booster goup session after 5-6 months.

Behavioral: Mer aktiv rehabilitation - A group-based lifestyle intervention within psychiatric care

Interventions

Mer aktiv rehabilitation - A group-based lifestyle intervention within psychiatric care BEHAVIORAL

Mer aktiv is a multiprofessional group-based intervention developed to meet a clinical need within outpatient psychiatric services and refined through collaboration among occupational therapists, physiotherapists, care workers, dietitians, and health coordinators across several clinics. The content of the group-based intervention Mer Aktiv includes: * Psychoeducation on lifestyle habits as part of active recovery (based on the six pillars of health), with a focus on physical activity, diet, sleep, stress management, and social connectedness. * Information about community-based actors and resources (integrated into Training in activity). * Training in activity (including physical and social activities) aimed at promoting a more active, meaningful, and balanced everyday life. * Planning and facilitation of next steps in an active rehabilitation process.

Also known as: Mer aktiv

Multiprofessional lifestyle group-intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 64 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Enrolled in adult outpatient psychiatric care
• Not engaged in any form of organized occupation, such as employment, studies, or work-based rehabilitation
• Physical exercise/structured physical activity outside the home less than once per week
• Participation in organized leisure activities less than once per week
• Able to walk independently without assistance
• No need for an interpreter

You may not qualify if:

• Inability to attend sessions twice per week (e.g., due to distance or lack of transportation)
• Ongoing individual psychotherapy
• Current or planned participation in another group-based intervention
• Ongoing substance use disorder, acute suicidality, or active psychosis (assessed based on the individual's capacity to manage symptoms and ability to participate in a group setting)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Region Halland: lead
• Fontänhuset Varberg (Fountain house): collaborator
• Träffpunkten Halmstad (Halmstad municipality): collaborator
• Göteborg University: collaborator
• Adult Psychiatry Region Halland: collaborator
• Lund University: collaborator
• Halmstad University: collaborator
• Kristianstad University: collaborator

Study Officials

• Maria Lönn

  Region Halland Psychiatry

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Maria Lönn, PhD

CONTACT

+46707568928; maria.lonn@hh.se

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Pre-post single goup Feasability study

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 17, 2026
• First Posted: April 29, 2026
• Study Start: April 20, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2028
• Last Updated: April 29, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share