![]() ![]() Telephone services overcome the barriers for people with a mental health condition to receiving face-to-face care, such as the costs of care, transportation costs and constraints, and waiting times. ![]() Free public telephone services are available in Australia 9, 10 and other high-income countries 11- 13 to provide personalised counselling or coaching to support positive changes in lifestyle factors. Telephone-based services represent a potential support to address the high prevalence of lifestyle risk factors among people with a mental health condition. 7 One key contributor is less access to effective, evidence-based behaviour change support. 6 There is a range of contributing factors, including the impact of mental health symptoms, higher social disadvantage and the use of lifestyle risk factors as a coping strategy. ![]() 4 Although people with a mental health condition are interested in modifying their lifestyle factors, 5 many experience difficulty in doing so this is reflected in lower rates of successful long-term behaviour change compared to the general population. This is in part due to a higher prevalence of lifestyle risk factors that increase the risk of chronic disease development, 3 including tobacco smoking, poor nutrition, harmful alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity. Worldwide, people with a mental health condition have significantly higher morbidity and mortality from chronic disease 1, 2 contributing to a reduced life expectancy of a median of 10 years, 1 compared to the general population. Implications for public health: Strategies to optimise reach for this population group are recommended. In the regression models, persons in a relationship were more likely to have heard of the Get Healthy Service (OR:2.19, CI:1.15–4.18), and persons aged 36–50 were more likely to have used the Quitline (OR:5.22, CI:1.17–23.37).Ĭonclusions: Opportunities exist for increasing awareness and use of both services, particularly the Get Healthy Service, among clients of community mental health services. Television was the most common source of awareness (39.7% Get Healthy Service 74.0% Quitline). Results: Awareness (16.1%) and use (1.9%) of the Get Healthy Service was lower than that of Quitline (89.1% 18.1%). Chi-squares and logistic regressions explored associations between client characteristics, and service awareness and use. Descriptive statistics summarised awareness and use of the New South Wales Quitline ® and Get Healthy Service ® for participants with lifestyle risk factors addressed by each service. Methods: Adult clients (n=375) of one Australian community mental health service completed a telephone interview and self-reported not meeting Australian National Guidelines for smoking, nutrition, alcohol consumption and/or physical activity. Objective: To determine the prevalence of, and factors associated with, awareness and use of telephone-based behaviour change support services among clients of a community mental health service. ![]()
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