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The Development of the Nutrition and Activity Knowledge Scale for Use with People with an Intellectual Disability

✍ Scribed by Kaye Illingworth; Kathleen A. Moore; Jane McGillivray

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
136 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
1360-2322

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✦ Synopsis

Background Obesity is an increasing health problem for many Australians, no less so among people with an intellectual disability. Behaviour change aimed at improving nutritional intake and increasing levels of physical activity is a requirement for the reduction of obesity. An essential part of this process is to first ascertain the level of knowledge and beliefs people with an intellectual disability have about these behaviours.

Methods The aim of this study was to develop and psychometrically evaluate a scale to assess levels of nutritional and physical activity knowledge among people with an intellectual disability.

Results Seventy‐three people with an intellectual disability completed the interview‐rated scale at time 1 and 66 of them completed it again at a 3‐week re‐test.

Conclusions The scale demonstrated strong factorial construct validity, high internal consistency and good temporal stability. The applications of this scale in future research and in intervention programmes are discussed.

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