ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights a number of issues to be considered when conducting research on exercise and mental health. It addresses ethical issues in relation to research in populations with mental health issues and considers methodological issues that researchers need to be aware of when conducting research with people who may have mental health concerns. These include: stigma, poverty, conflation, comorbidity, pharmacology and neuroscience. It also highlights other factors that researchers should be aware of when undertaking such research, such as: outcomes, community, interdisciplinarity, consent, acute or chronic responses and age. The chapter signposts the reader to published studies which illustrate current methodological approaches, and concludes by suggesting future research questions and methodologies.
