{"id":10809,"date":"2023-11-23T07:59:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2023-11-23T07:59:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:59:42","slug":"mh1-stands-for-mental-health-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/mh1-stands-for-mental-health-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"MH1 stands for Mental Health 1st &#8211; Learn more with MH1&#8217;s Lynne Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hear from MH1&#8217;s Lynne Briggs about how the MH1 team are innovating and leading the way in the conversation around mental health in the fitness industry.<\/h2>\n<p><span data-markjs=\"true\">In our latest webcast we covered:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The latest mental health stats (also listed below)<\/li>\n<li>Mental Health Questionnaire (MHQ) \u2013 the first psychometric questionnaire<\/li>\n<li>Who are MH1, their partners and Advisory Board<\/li>\n<li>The 4 pillars \u00a0upon which MH1 is based<\/li>\n<li>The new qualification with YMCA Awards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch the webcast now and <strong>#releasethefeelgood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MH1 webcast Nov 2023 edited\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m9MToTbYONk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Here are some of the stats that Lynne quoted during our chat:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>March 23\u00a0 &#8211; NHS &#8211; <\/strong>Estimated 3.25 million people <strong>in contact<\/strong> with NHS mental health services at some point during 2021\/22<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mental Health UK &#8211; <\/strong>8 million people are experiencing an anxiety disorder at any one time<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mental Health Foundation &#8211; <\/strong>Less than 50% of people with generalised anxiety disorder access treatment<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Health Organisation Jan 23 Report &#8211; <\/strong>There will be an estimated 499.2 million new cases of noncommunicable diseases globally in 2030 at a direct cost of $520 billion if physical inactivity doesn\u2019t change with a direct healthcare cost of around $520 billion. Shockingly,\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">43% of new cases will come from anxiety and depression.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Champion Health \u2013 Workplace Health Report 2023 &#8211; <\/strong>60% of employees are experiencing anxiety but only 10% are seeking mental health support. Poor mental health was the top reason for time off work in 2021 with an average of 18,8 days off and a cost of \u00a343 million. 54% of workers who take 2 or more mental health-related absenses will go on to leave their jobs.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>UK Active<\/strong> &#8211; In a recently commissioned survey of 2,000 people who exercised, 54% said they did it for their mental health as opposed to 49% for \u2018getting into shape&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A little bit more about Lynne&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Lynneheadshot-1.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Lynne Briggs\" width=\"317\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Lynne Briggs<\/strong> has worked with FitPro for over 30 years and is currently Client Support for the MOSSA pre choreographed group exercise programmes. She is a qualified tutor\/assessor and the joint founder and co-director of MH1, the innovator of the validated Mental Health Questionnaire (MHQ) which is a non-clinical tool that measures the trajectory of mental health using lifestyle factors as marker.\u00a0Lynne has a passionate interest in mental health &#8211; especially the positive impact of movement and physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear from MH1&#8217;s Lynne Briggs about how the MH1 team are innovating and leading the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3074,860],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-webcast","8":"category-business"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10809"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10888,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions\/10888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}