Establishing utility of a physical health improvement intervention in a regional mental health inpatient service: A multimethod study protocol

This study aims to codesign and implement a physical health improvement behaviour change intervention for people being treated for a mental illness in an inpatient unit of a regional private hospital. This research uses the Health Improvement Profile (HIP) tool to help clinicians (e.g. nurses, doctors) to assess patients physical health and identify risk factors or early signs of disease. Using the Health Improvement Profile (HIP) tool during admission the clinicians will work with you to implement the most suitable health promotion tools to
help improve your physical health.
Using implementation research methodology and following the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) the study is broken into the following 4 stages:
• Identify completed in the literature review
• Adapt – codesign/adapt HIP tool and user training
• Implement – into clinical areas to assist developing personalised health improvement profiles
• Evaluate – both qualitative and quantitative data to determine feasibility of the HIP and implementation in a regional health service