Service users experience of sport and its effects on mental health
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Service users experience of sport and exercise and its effects on mental health and wellbeing
IRAS ID
141929
Contact name
Alison Rodriguez
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Huddersfield
Research summary
The research aims to explore mental health service users’ experience of sports and exercise. The focus will be upon their experiences related to any experienced sport and exercise in their lifeworlds. Therefore, participants will be encouraged to discuss activities both related and not related to the ‘Let’s Do This’ initiative. The ’Let’s Do This’ initiative has been created by the Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - Healthy Living service to encourage service users to engage in sports and exercise as part of their on going recovery from a variety of mental health conditions. A further objective is to explore the sports and exercise experiences of participants when participating in other structured activities, organised through mental health and general recreational services and also free choice activities service users may be engaged in. Service providers will also be invited to discuss their experiences of working with service users in sport and exercise settings.
This study will explore the lived experience of sport and exercise of service users from an interpretative phenomenological perspective (Smith, 1996). It will use a well-established qualitative approach to interview 6-8 service users. In addition 3-4 service providers will be interviewed to provide insight into the sport and exercise provision for service users and in depth personal experience of the effects of sports and exercise on service users mental health and wellbeing.
REC name
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/EM/0096
Date of REC Opinion
5 Mar 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion