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Feasibility and acceptability of a culinary nutrition programme for adults with mild-to-moderate intellectual disability: FLIP Food and Lifestyle Information Programme

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posted on 2025-05-11, 21:41 authored by Roberta AsherRoberta Asher, Vanessa ShrewsburyVanessa Shrewsbury, B. Innes, A. Fitzpatrick, S. Simmonds, V. Cross, Anna RoseAnna Rose, E. Hinton, Clare CollinsClare Collins
Background: Culinary nutrition education can support improved diet-related health and wellbeing. This pre-post pilot study aimed to assess feasibility and acceptability of an eight-session culinary nutrition programme, the Food and Lifestyle Information Programme (FLIP), for adults with mild-to-moderate intellectual disability. A secondary aim was to evaluate preliminary programme effectiveness. Method: Participants were recruited through a disability service provider. Feasibility measures were: recruitment and retention; implementation; engagement and participation; adverse outcomes; and feasibility of outcome measures. Acceptability was assessed using an interactive process evaluation. Effectiveness measures included cooking frequency, cooking and food skill confidence and diet quality. Results: Six of eight participants completed the intervention with high attendance and programme engagement. FLIP was well received by participants and support workers. No adverse outcomes occurred. Diet quality was feasible to assess. Conclusions: Findings can inform content, delivery and evaluation of future culinary nutrition programmes for adults with mild-to-moderate intellectual disability.

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Journal title

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volume

37

Issue

5

Article number

e13281

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Language

  • en, English

College/Research Centre

College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing

School

School of Health Sciences

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© 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

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