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Table 2 Overview of the Muva intervention

From: Muva physical activity intervention to improve social functioning in people with a severe mental illness: study protocol of a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomized trial

Phase

Activities

Targeted at

Step 1: Evaluating physical activity and goal setting

• Physical activity check to:

◦ Evaluate amount of physical activity

◦ Assess barriers and opportunities

◦ Set goals

• Serious game ‘Muva’ for goal setting, reminders and motivation

• Patients

• Mental health workers

Step 2: Participating in physical activity activities, lifestyle courses, and medication review

• Group sports activities: e.g., group walks, yoga, boxing, fitness, football

• Guidance meetings will be done for at least once a week in an active way, e.g., during a walk or a bike ride

• Lifestyle courses:

a. Healthy food program: A five-week course in which participants learn the basics of healthy food and try to improve their eating habits

b. Improve sleeping program: A 6-week insomnia cognitive behavioral therapy course in which participants learn to improve their sleep quality

c. Smoking cessation program: An 8-week course with elements of cognitive behavioral therapy in which participants do an attempt to quit smoking

d. Individualized food advice: Dietary advice by filling in the Dutch Healthy Diet Index, a questionnaire based on the nutrition advice of the Dutch center for nutrition

• Medication review

• Patients

• Mental health workers

• Patients

• Mental health workers

• Patients