Exercise interventions in child and adolescent mental health care: An overview of the evidence and recommendations for implementation.
Rebekah CarneyJoseph FirthPublished in: JCPP advances (2021)
The key conclusions from this suggest there is an increasingly strong evidence base for the benefits of using physical activity interventions to improve, prevent, and manage physical and mental health outcomes in CYP with mental illness. However, more work needs to be done to improve the evidence base, refine its implementation into standard mental health care, and develop strategies for large-scale dissemination of such interventions across various care and cultural contexts.