Dietary Intake of Adults With Mental Retardation Who Reside in Community Settings

Abstract

The dietary intake of adults with mental retardation among three different community residential settings was described and compared. Two dietary screeners were administered to 325 adults. The women's Fruit and Vegetable Screener scores from group homes were significantly higher than scores from those with family members and in semi-independent settings. No significant differences were found in dietary intake across residences for men. Overall, 0% to 6% of the participants consumed the recommended 5 or more fruits and vegetables per day, and 15% to 30% consumed the recommended<or=30% or less of calories from fat. Results suggest that regardless of residential setting, men and women do not consume enough fruits and vegetables and consume too much dietary fat.

Foodwork among people with intellectual disabilities and dietary implications depending on staff involvement

“…Here we can observe a conflict between independency and nutritional health. This observation is in line with other studies showing that the grade of independency for people with ID has to do with problems related to being overweight (Draheim et al 2007;Hove 2004). However, as the present results show, other kinds of nutritional risks also exist.…”

Nutrition and Adults With Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities: Systematic Literature Review Results*

“…Three studied institutionalized adults (Cunningham et al, 1990;Litchford & Wakefield, 1985;Molteno et al, 2000), 12 studied adults living in community settings (Bertoli et al, 2006;Braunschweig et al, 2004;Draheim et al, 2002aDraheim et al, , 2007Humphries et al, 2007;Humphries, Traci, & Seekins, 2004;Lindeman, 1991;Mann et al, 2006;McGuire et al, 2007;Robertson et al, 2000;Seekins et al, 2005;Stewart et al, 1994), 1 compared a cross-section of samples from the community and from an intermediate care facility (Mercer & Ekvall, 1992), and 1 study assessed dietary intake longitudinally in a sample of adults as they moved from an institution to a community residence (Bryan et al, 2000). Of the communitybased studies, 3 studied dietary intake via menu review (Humphries et al, 2004;Lindeman, 1991;Mercer & Ekvall, 1992), 1 used 7-day food records (Bertoli et al, 2006), 7 used a food frequency questionnaire (Braunschweig et al, 2004;Draheim, 2007;Draheim et al, 2002a;Humphries et al, 2007;McGuire et al, 2007;Robertson et al, 2000;Seekins et al, 2005), and 2 used diet history (Mann et al, 2006;Stewart et al, 1994). In addition, 2 studies attempted to correlate dietary intake with chronic disease (CVD risk factors; Braunschweig et al, 2004;Draheim et al, 2002a).…”

Dementia in people with intellectual disability: Insights and challenges in epidemiological research with an at-risk population

“…Gu et al, 2010). While studies of dementia risk and nutrition in people with ID are currently lacking, studies in the ID population without dementia have highlighted the extremely poor dietary intake of this group: up to 6% of American adults with ID living in community residential settings were found to eat enough fruit and vegetables while over 70% consumed too much fat (Draheim et al, 2007), and similarly, only 8% of adults with ID in a UK study consumed a balanced diet (Robertson et al, 2000). Obesity is common in people with ID compared with those without, and especially amongst those with mild and moderate ID, and a large portion of those with severe ID have feeding diffi culties and are at risk of being underweight (Melville et al, 2007).…”