Goal The overall aim of the study is to improve the health of persons with Intellectual disabilities
Purpose There are two main purposes of the study The first is to study the diet and heath of persons with intellectual disabilities. The second is to increase their knowledge on nutrition and health and that of service providers in municipalities housing facilities and to test, in an intervention, the effects of a method for weight reduction in adult persons with intellectual disabilities with overweight and obesity. Physical activity is also an important factor in weight reduction, but this study focuses only on nutrition, to obtain new information on this one factor in weight reduction. A combined study with many changes in a short period of time is very challenging for the group in question. The vision is that results from this study will lead to improved health promotive and preventive services in the municipality in the future, to adult persons with intellectual disabilities and that this study also can have effects on services also for other groups, such as those with the fields of psychiatry and drug problems.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
32
Use nudging approach by using smaller plates and glasses and increasing the availability of fruits and vegetables
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Change in body weight by using a nudging approach in adults with intellectual disabilities
2 kg weight decrease
Time frame: One year
Change in consumption of fruits and vegetables as measured using dietary survey
Dietary change 1
Time frame: One year
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