The Importance Of Green Prescriptions

Encouraging green prescription while in the community also helpful to keep them active 30 minutes a day. Green prescription is a referral from a health professional that enable SUs to access support for increasing physical activity in a cost effective way (Patel et al., 2013). A study clearly reported that physical activity, healthy diet, education and lifestyle change interventions have shown significant improvement in their outcome measure compared to their baseline measurements (Usher et al., 2013). Furthermore, MHNs can address health inequalities of SUs by coordinating with their GP services for regular physical health screening to make sure physical health problems identified and managed earlier (Bradshaw & Pedley, 2012). Acknowledging their social status and providing support in accommodation and employment will enhance their ability to participate in care.
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For example, as I mentioned earlier about a SU diagnosed with type-2 diabetes after long-term use of clozapine. These types of situations causing ethical dilemma in health professionals because giving the medication to SU, in one way “doing good” to them by relieving their mental distress but at the same time “ doing harm” to their physical health.
Despite of experiencing therapeutic benefits, most of the SUs stopped taking SGAs due to their side effects. A study clearly demonstrated that almost eighty percent of SUs with psychosis experienced relapse due to non-adherence to their medications (Morrison, Meehan & Stomski, 2015). Researchers suggest that proper education and support during the recovery process could assists SUs to adhere to their medications and enable them to cope to manage side effects associated with those medications (Morrison, Meehan & Stomski,