{"id":22536,"date":"2018-09-19T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lancashirecarelibraryblog.com\/?p=22536"},"modified":"2018-09-19T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T07:00:25","slug":"coping-through-football-evaluation-report-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2018\/09\/19\/coping-through-football-evaluation-report-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping through Football: evaluation report 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Centre for Mental Health, September 2018<\/strong><br \/>\nDoes the \u2018Coping Through Football\u2019 programme deliver benefits to the physical and mental health of people living with mental health difficulties? Coping Through Football was founded by London Playing Fields Foundation, who started the initiative in 2005 in collaboration with North East London Foundation Trust and Leyton Orient Trust. It was conceived in response to the fact that the biggest cause of death of 20-49 year old men was suicide and that given that community mental health services were stretched to the limit, there was an over reliance on medication as a treatment. The report finds that for two out of three participants (39% of whom have schizophrenia) there was a positive change in lifestyle choices around healthy eating and smoking. 54% of participants went on to volunteering, education and training or employment. The report also records that there was a 12% reduction in the number of overnight hospital stays for those who were involved in the project. The report that the Coping Through Football programme is a low-cost intervention in the mental health sector. The cost of one person attending the programme every week for a year was \u00a31,700, which is equivalent to four days in a mental health inpatient bed, or five A&amp;E attendances. Our analysis also highlighted that \u201cthe annual cost of Coping Through Football for one year is the equivalent of the costs of schizophrenia to society for just over one person.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/allcatsrgrey.org.uk\/wp\/download\/public_health\/mental_health\/CopingThroughFootball_Evaluation_Rpt_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to view the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre for Mental Health, September 2018 Does the \u2018Coping Through Football\u2019 programme deliver benefits to the physical and mental health of people living with mental health difficulties? Coping Through Football was founded by London Playing Fields Foundation, who started the initiative in 2005 in collaboration with North East London Foundation Trust and Leyton Orient Trust. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2018\/09\/19\/coping-through-football-evaluation-report-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coping through Football: evaluation report 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[141,165],"tags":[2552,5483],"class_list":["post-22536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health","category-ot-occupational-therapy","tag-football","tag-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}