Mental Health & Exercise

Mental Health – Exercise Based Interventions Major

Long-term health conditions experienced in Australia in 2014-15 were:

• Arthritis – 3.5 million people (15.3%)
• Cancer – 370,100 people (1.6%)
• Diabetes – 1.2 million people (5.2%)
• Mental and Behavioural conditions – 4.0 million people (17.5%)
• Asthma – 2.5 million people (10.8%)

Additionally, of the 4.0 million, 3.6 million reported co-existing long-term mental and behavioral and physical health conditions.

1 in 3 people are likely to have some physical impairment if mental health disorder lasted 12 months and longer.

Classification of Disease 10th Revision (ICD-10) categorises mental disorders into 3 groups:

• Affective disorders – 1 in 16 Australians (aged 18-65)
• Anxiety Disorders – 1 in 7 Australians (aged 18-65)
• Substance abuse disorders – 1 in 20 Australians (aged 18-65)

Note: some may more than one class at any given time.

Affective Disorder – Common Types

• Depressive episode
• Dysthymia – persistent depressive disorder (chronic depression)
• Bipolar Affective disorder

Anxiety Disorder – Common Types

• PTSD
• Social Phobia
• Panic attack
• Agoraphobia
• OCD

Female > Male

Substance Abuse – Common Types

• Alcohol Harmful Use
• Alcohol dependence
• Any drug harmful use
• Any drug dependence