What is it about?
This article describes a health promotion course that was delivered to people with learning disabilities with the aim of increasing their knowledge and improving their health.
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Why is it important?
Understanding about health and staying healthy is important for empowering people with learning disabilities to take some control over their own health. The delivery of this course explored peoples knowledge before the course began and compared their knowledge when the course completed. The evidence suggested there was an increase in knowledge following the course. However we followed up the group 6 months following the course to explore the sustainability of the knowledge gained and found that there was little change to their daily lives.
Perspectives
The findings from this project revealed an important finding in relation to the lives of people with learning disabilities. The majority of people who attended this course lived with parents or in residential settings where control of daily living was dependent on others. It is therefore vital that future health promotion courses should be conducted in partnership with people with learning disabilities and their carers so that changes they may want to make in their lives can be mutually agreed.
Mrs mary T codling
BHFT
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This page is a summary of: Sustainability of health promotion for people with learning disabilities, Nursing Standard, February 2011, RCNi,
DOI: 10.7748/ns2011.02.25.22.42.c8317.
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