💡Take home message: Prioritising promotion of leisure-time PA may be particularly important for supporting mental health.

Thanks to all authors involved - it was an incredible team effort!

The article can be found at:
doi.org/10.1136/bjsp...

✅🚴🏽🧹 Transport-related and household PA is associated with better mental health

‼️🔨 Work-related PA is positively associated with mental ill-health

✅⚽️ School sport is inversely associated with mental ill-health

We meta-analysed evidence from 372 studies - more than 1K effect sizes - in a combined sample of over 3 million people - to show:

✅✅ 🏌️‍♀️Leisure-time PA is the only domain associated with better mental health and lower likelihood of mental ill-health

Does the association between physical activity and mental health/ill-health differ dependant on the domain in which physical activity is performed? Yes it does!

doi.org/10.1136/bjsp...

Can moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) programs support the mental health and wellbeing of (the 1 in 3) women who have experienced gender-based violence?

We synthesised the evidence here:

ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Brilliantly led by Thea Baker!

@srosenbaum.bsky.social

Are lifestyle-based interventions aligned w @who.int guidance mental health policy?
📘5 modules:
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Takeaways (Module 2):

Lifestyle interventions are rights-affirming & core to dignity, autonomy, and recovery📍2.2

Lay providers, physio's, EPs, coaches can be part of MH workforce📍3.1