A Study on the effect of “Sporting-Dietary Behaviors Control Strategy” on the weight reduction of obese handicapped students

• Main Authors: Yi-hwa Meng, 孟儀華
• Other Authors: 杜正治
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61884979573031297862

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 特殊教育學系在職進修碩士學位班 === 91 === ABSTRACT The study was to examine the effects of “Sporting─Dietary Behaviors Control Strategy” on the weight reduction of obese handicapped students and its influence on personal adaptive behaviors. The research employs the multiple-baseline across-subject design. Participants consisted of three students who are studying in Secondary Division of Taoyuan School for Students with Disabilities. They are obese with the value of BMI over 26. However, their obesity is sheer obesity, rather than symptomatic obesity (such as Down Syndrome) or accompanied by other additional handicaps or physiological diseases (such as epilepsia). We obtained consents in advance from both their parents and themselves. “Sporting─Dietary Behaviors Control Strategy” means researcher and the selected persons reached weight-reduction agreements to monitor and control their order of food and speed of eating, including nibbles between meals, drinks containing sugar and quantity of food in three meals everyday during experiment. We also prescribed them with aerobic fitness training in fixed periods of time (about 40 minutes between after school and dinner) during experiment. The main results of the research were listed as follows: 1.“Sporting─Dietary Behaviors Control Strategy” can effectively reduce the weight of participating students. To illustrate, after intervention, Student A reduced 3.58 kilograms, BMI dropped 1.37; B reduced 3.58 kilograms, BMI dropped 1.33; and C reduced 2.84 kilograms, BMI dropped 1.35. 2.In follow-up, their weights came back a little. Student A’s weight was 76.38 kilograms at the end of experiment, and his weights are 78.46, 78.9 and 79.12 kilograms respectively after two, three and four months. Student B’s weights was 67.96 kilograms at the end of experiment, and in follow-up his weights seemed to come back a little to 69.12, 69 and 69.36 kilograms respectively. C’s weight was 63.96 and in the follow-up, his weights are 65.2, 65.86 and 64.98 kilograms respectively. 3.After the intervention, the participants’ of adaptive behaviors did not changed significantly. The main reason is because adaptive behavior is one of developmental behaviors, so time is one of important factors. That is, it takes a long period of time to change either through training or learning. The period of this experiment is as short as eight to twelve weeks and it is hard to change these behaviors in such a short period of time. Besides, the subjects rarely showed these negative behaviors and therefore a significant difference is hard to show. However, we found a the study did make a difference based on the social validity checked by participants’ parents, teachers and significant others. The study also provides some suggestions and recommendations for future studies and applications.