Exploration of barriers and facilitators to physical activity in adults with schizophrenia involved in a long-term psychosocial rehabilitation programme: a mixed method study

While most factors are shared with other severe mental illnesses, social difficulties, addictive substance consumption and feelings of self-pride emerged more specifically in our sample. The motivational classification highlighted the prevalence of autonomous motivation, which supports durable behaviours. Barriers reflected schizophrenia-related symptoms not addressed by antipsychotics, underlining the need for multidisciplinary care, especially as some of them are not specific to physical activity uptake. Psychosocial rehabilitation settings could use our findings to adapt physical activity promotion in pwSCZ.