Reference (in APA format) purpose participants setting outcome variable(s) intervention or procedure results implication for teachers Holland, A., Treasure, J., Coskeran, P., & Dallow, J. (1995). Characteristics of the eating disorder in Prader-Willi syndrome: implications for treatment. Journal Of Intellectual Disability Research, 39(5), 373-381. The purpose of this article is to inform people on the characteristics of eating disorders associated with PWS and possible treatments. 13 subjects with Prader- Willi Syndrome with an average age of 24. Direct Observation during access to food. Settings varied but study was conducted over 28 days. 8 of the 13 participants had their food strictly restricted. They were given an hour to eat and the different restriction levels were measured. Some of the participants required restraint for their eating behaviors. Only three of the 13 required firm direction. Some required "total control" and therefore their eating was strictly restricted and determined by a caretaker. Those who did not require the severe restrictions had a higher body mass index indicating they may eat less but more often and therefore consume the same amount of calories as the participants who required restraint and severe restrictions. The implication that teachers may take from this article include: strict and firm direction is needed for students with Prader- Willi syndrome in order to ensure their eating disorder does not become a problem. Also, restricted access to food during classroom activities should maintained to reduce need for restraints and over- eating. Van Hooren, R., Widdershoven, G., Candel, M., BW, & Curfs, L. (2006). Between control and freedom in the care for persons with Prader-Willi syndrome: an a... ... middle of paper ... ...with PWS process infromation i.e. visual motor and auditory verbal processing The study required that participants must be given IQ tests, and also that they be observed in a classroom setting while interventions were put in place. Thus the adminsitratiors were able to draw results both from IQ scores and actual classroom preformance. In 13 patients a significant difference between verbal and performance IQ was found. In 10 of them the performance IQ was higher than the verbal. The results of subtest analysis indicate that cognitive strengths are more visible than cognitive weaknesses. Analysis of all available data indicates that PWS patients score better on visual motor discrimination skills than on auditory verbal processing skills. These results indicitive for intervention programs and education strategies which pertian to auditory and kinesthetic instruction.
In a typical healthy adult, reductions in food intake is quite rare. Reducing the caloric intake of a typical adult inhibits our ability to fight diseases.
Before answering the questions let find out what intelligence test is. It is a test consisting of a series of tasks requiring people to use various verbal and non verbal skills to measure the individual’s intellectual ability. Now that we know what an intelligence test is we can now answer the question better. Three important short comings of intelligence test that have nothing to do with intelligence are: having low motivation or high anxiety which can greatly influence the performance on the test, also IQ test may contain cultural biases in their language and or tasks that may place people of one background above people of another back ground, and members of minority groups may have little experience with this kind of test or may be uncomfortable with examiners of a different ethnic back ground than them (Comer, 2013, pp.107).
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Refusal to maintain minimally normal weight for persons height, age, body type, and activity level.
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Eating Disorders (EDs) are a series of often life-threatening mental health disorders which are commonly used as coping mechanisms or as ways to mask one’s problems. The causes of these illnesses are still being researched, and the effects they have on a person’s physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing can often be as long as the sufferer’s life.
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Anorexia nervosa is a specific disorder defined in DSM IV. Several classifications must be met for a diagnosis of anorexia to be made. There must be a refusal by the patient to maintain a healthy body weight for their age and height. This behavior must eventually lead to a weight loss in which the body weight falls to less then 85% of the persons ideal body weight. Or the patient can refuse to gain any weight during periods of growth. In wome...
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by a fear of being overweight which results in becoming exceedingly thin. (guide) People with anorexia go to an extreme in abusing the way they diet, over exercise, and purge. When looking for symptoms in anorexia it is slightly hard to tell, for many times people keep their disorder a secret. Once someone starts undergoing this process, people sometimes gain weight rather than lose, which also initiates them to lose more weight. During the period of growth and maturation, anorexia leads to somatic and psychological development and which leads to serious health issues. (journal research) Although many don’t see what is happening, over time they are sev...
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In the days that I decided to lose weight, I used mobile app to record the calorie of every dish I had and pushed my self to get rid of any fried food, sweet food or snacks. However, my insistence didn’t last long. After one week, I could not help myself eating lots of sweet food. Once I ate five ice creams after a big meal, and another midnight I ate lots of chocolates under the pressure of schoolwork. However, I have never taken it too serious or considered eating disorder as mental illness until I read this article. I sadly observed that some signs implying that one experiences eating disorder also happened to me. For example, I put restriction on whole category of food, after dieting I stayed in my room and ate snacks all day long, and I extremely valued the relationship with weight, food, calories or exercise. Luckily, after the class talking about bad habit, I decided to give up irregular eating habits, stopped keeping a diet, and began to eat just right to satisfy my stomach. Although my planned goal of losing weight cannot be achieved, it is better to have a healthy eating habit than overeat. Now my brain no longer make reprisals since I don’t restrict myself on some food too
The patient may no longer be able to orally take in food, and the artificial means of feeding may worsen the patient’s quality of life. The concept of food cessation is often difficult for the patient’s friends and family to understand and accept, especially because food is essential to life, and eating is a sociocultural experience. Family must be reminded that to feed the patient may do more harm than good. However, until the time that oral intake stops, nurses must be providing other ways to increase the patient’s nutrient intake. The performance of symptom assessments and the development of plans of care should begin at the time of diagnosis and continue throughout the remainder of the patient’s life. These assessments and plans of care are both critical to preventing the onset of early malnutrition and to maintaining the patient’s quality of
Choosing an appropriate dietary assessment method depends on the purpose for which it is needed. The majority of retrospective dietary assessment methods such as 24-hour recall is of limited validity because of dependence on subject memory and motivation, reliability of the respondent not to under /misreport and ability to estimate portion sizes of the items consumed (Thompson & Byers, 1994). Although the technique is inexpensive, low respondent burden and relatively easy to assess current nutrient intake of a group, it is not appropriate to use data from a single day to repr...