tackling obesity in people with learning disability

Bradley, Sue

doi:10.7748/ldp2005.09.8.7.10.c1637

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“…nurses [27], dietitians [28] or physiotherapists [29]. The interventions were community based and mainly delivered in group sessions with one exception [29].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Bradley [28] and Marshall et al [27] used educational material covering healthy eating as part of the content. Specifically, Marshall et al [27] used an adapted content from the “activate materials” produced by the health promotion agency in Northern Ireland, designed to improve healthy eating and exercise patterns.…”

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“…Some studies reported changes in waist circumference [28,32,35,37,38] or waist hip ratio [22,24] but the results are not reported in this review.…”

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Weight management interventions in adults with intellectual disabilities and obesity: a systematic review of the evidence

Spanos

Melville

Hankey

2013

Nutr J

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To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of weight management interventions in adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) and obesity using recommendations from current clinical guidelines for the first line management of obesity in adults. Full papers on lifestyle modification interventions published between 1982 to 2011 were sought by searching the Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and CINAHL databases. Studies were evaluated based on 1) intervention components, 2) methodology, 3) attrition rate 4) reported weight loss and 5) duration of follow up. Twenty two studies met the inclusion criteria. The interventions were classified according to inclusion of the following components: behaviour change alone, behaviour change plus physical activity, dietary advice or physical activity alone, dietary plus physical activity advice and multi-component (all three components). The majority of the studies had the same methodological limitations: no sample size justification, small heterogeneous samples, no information on randomisation methodologies. Eight studies were classified as multi-component interventions, of which one study used a 600 kilocalorie (2510 kilojoule) daily energy deficit diet. Study durations were mostly below the duration recommended in clinical guidelines and varied widely. No study included an exercise program promoting 225–300 minutes or more of moderate intensity physical activity per week but the majority of the studies used the same behaviour change techniques. Three studies reported clinically significant weight loss (≥ 5%) at six months post intervention. Current data indicate weight management interventions in those with ID differ from recommended practice and further studies to examine the effectiveness of multi-component weight management interventions for adults with ID and obesity are justified.

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“…nurses [27], dietitians [28] or physiotherapists [29]. The interventions were community based and mainly delivered in group sessions with one exception [29].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Weight management interventions in adults with intellectual disabilities and obesity: a systematic review of the evidence

Spanos

Melville

Hankey

2013

Nutr J

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“…Obesity is ill considered as a symbol of wealth and fertility in some parts of the world [7]. Despite the development of several methodologies for treating obesity [8], its treatment rate is pretty lethargic. Improvement in diet quality, reduced consumption of highly fatty foods and sugars, heavy uptake of dietary fiber, excessive physical workout and the practice of skipping the lunch/dinner are some commonly tried ways to fight obesity.…”

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Tolerable environmentally inverse constrained functional metabolism: Key to fight obesity

Runthala¹

2012

RusOMJ

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Health risk of obesity is a heavily growing concern for societies across the globe, as it is the root cause of several lethal diseases, for which the cure is highly expensive. I tried an innovative approach with some formulations and calculations, and it has shown excellent results.The work is intended to explore the efficacy of the judiciously practiced weight loss measure for an interested obese person. The manuscript explains the concept with the formulated enhanced impact of this methodology and thus presents an exploratory logical hypothesis. It is proven to be a reliable tool to fight obesity without medication treatments.Keywords: weight, obesity, energy, metabolism. IntroductionA highly widespread problem, i.e. Obesity is a medical state in which excessive fat in the body gets accumulated to a level, where it becomes lethal for the body itself. Despite the detailed knowledge of several known root causes of this disease, we can't stop us from being more and more obese. Obesity, if untreated, becomes the initiating factor for several diseases including heart diseases, Diabetes Type-II and several bone related ailments [1].Seeing the majority of heavily weighed persons in my family and being a biology student curious to learn new lively concepts, our hypothesis is drafted as an interactive study between the health professional and the anonymous reviewers. I represent a hypothetically well proven study to fight obesity and thus invite the reader to mark their views supporting this hypothesis. Obesity is one of the major problems today. We investigated our hypothesis to study the root cause of the obesity, possible scientific ways to reduce the additional fat deposits and thus worked out the logical reasoning to develop a simple weight loss measure. I strongly believe in the adequate impact and widespread utility for this methodology and thus conclude for a well reliable, simple and employable approach to attempt weight loss in easy steps.

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“…It is also well known that adults with ID have a higher risk of obesity and the associated health risks with obesity, which are factors that could have an impact on their quality of life [5][6][7]. The prevalence of overweight, obe-sity and body fat percentage in older people with ID was measured through Body Mass Index and waist-to-hip ratio.…”

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Healthy lifestyle for people with intellectual disabilities through a health intervention program

Lorentzen¹,

Wikström²

2012

OJN

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There are well known gaps related to health care service and public health interventions for people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID), but there is still lack of research information of what nurses can do to reducing health disparities of persons with ID. The present study aimed at exploring the views of people with ID about a healthy lifestyle, exercise, and to take part in a health promotion program. A qualitative method was an appropriate method for capturing the informants' points of view. Participants were adults with intellectual disability who would be able to give their consent verbally and in written form. Women (n = 7) and men (n = 6). Data were collected from focus group interviews and analysed according to a qualitative content analysis of the tape-recorded and verbatim transcribed interviews. The participants took part in four workshops about healthy food, and ten physical activities addressing the connection to physical, social and emotional health. The results of the focus group interviews show that participants have knowledge about the importance of a healthy lifestyle for good health including physical activity and healthy food. Participants also describe social interaction and self-determination as important aspects in their life. It could then be concluded that the health promotion program result point at consciousness about a healthy lifestyle. There is still lack of research information of what public health nurses can do to reducing health disparities of persons with ID. Public health nurses work in community-based services and therefore they also might support persons with ID through health intervention programs.

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tackling obesity in people with learning disability

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Weight management interventions in adults with intellectual disabilities and obesity: a systematic review of the evidence

Weight management interventions in adults with intellectual disabilities and obesity: a systematic review of the evidence

Tolerable environmentally inverse constrained functional metabolism: Key to fight obesity

Healthy lifestyle for people with intellectual disabilities through a health intervention program

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