Abstract

BackgroundPeople with intellectual disabilities (ID) depend on their environment to live healthily. Asset‐based health promotion enhances a settings’ health‐promoting capacity starting with identifying protective or promotive factors that sustain health.MethodThis inclusive mixed‐methods study used group sessions to generate and rank ideas on assets supporting healthy nutrition and physical activity in Dutch intellectual disability care settings. Participants included people with moderate intellectual disabilities and family and care professionals of people with severe/profound intellectual disabilities.ResultsFifty‐one participants identified 185 assets in group sessions. They include the following: (i) the social network and ways “people” can support, (ii) assets in/around “places,” and person–environment fit, and (iii) “preconditions”: health care, prevention, budget, and policy.ConclusionThis inclusive research provides a user perspective on assets in the living environment supporting healthy living. This gives insight in contextual factors needed for development and sustainable embedment of health promotion in the systems of intellectual disability support settings.

Highlights

  • Perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are included in research concerning their health (Gibbs, Brown, & Muir, 2008; Kuijken, Naaldenberg, Nijhuis-van der Sanden, & Schrojenstein-Lantman de Valk, 2016; Young & Chesson, 2006)

  • For people with intellectual disabilities, the setting, for example the social, physical and organizational environment, of intellectual disability support providers plays a key role in health promotion (Marks & Sisirak, 2014; O’Leary, Taggart, & Cousins, 2018)

  • This study aimed to identify and prioritize assets for physical activity and healthy nutrition in the living environment of people with intellectual disabilities from their own perspective

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Introduction

Perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are included in research concerning their health (Gibbs, Brown, & Muir, 2008; Kuijken, Naaldenberg, Nijhuis-van der Sanden, & Schrojenstein-Lantman de Valk, 2016; Young & Chesson, 2006). Recent studies provide insights into perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities on enabling and constraining factors for physical activity and healthy nutrition (Cartwright, Reid, Hammersley, & Walley, 2017; Caton et al, 2012; Doherty, Jones, Chauhan, & Gibson, 2018; Kuijken et al, 2016; Spassiani, Meisner, Abou Chacra, Heller, & Hammel, 2019; Temple & Walkley, 2007). Conclusion: This inclusive research provides a user perspective on assets in the living environment supporting healthy living This gives insight in contextual factors needed for development and sustainable embedment of health promotion in the systems of intellectual disability support settings

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