<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Churn, Peter</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lifestyle walks: an outside walking group intervention for patients with mental health issues</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020-01-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">29-29</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/bjgp20X707537</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">70</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">690</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The idea of running a surgery lifestyle walk came from a realisation that an increasingly large part of my workload was comprised of mild to moderate mental health issues that would be best addressed by lifestyle changes.I found myself discussing similar themes with my patients and wondered whether these could be applied to a group consultation model as promoted at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) conference in 2018 (Symington E. Group consultations. Part of a lecture at the RCGP Conference, Glasgow, 2018). The topic of lifestyle intervention would naturally lend itself to a walk outside, so, if the concepts didn’t resonate, then people would at least benefit from the setting of the intervention itself! The walk would be led by a GP in whom people had confidence and trust, rather than a third-sector provider. I reasoned there would be comfort in discussing intimate, difficult issues walking side-by-side within a small peer group.The content was based around Rangan Chatterjee’s The 4-Pillar Plan …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>