Abstract
Aim: We aimed to clarify the process that how mothers thought and acted about their children’s obesity in people with severe intellectual disabilities and autism, from their birth to the present. Nursing support for body weight management was also reviewed.
Method: We conducted semi-structured interviews of 10 mothers and analyzed the results using the modified grounded theory approach; M-GTA.
Result: The findings of this study indicated that mothers had to do “patterning support of the meal for the peace” which led to obesity, intensified by “the attachment to their children who had difficult independence”, because mothers coped desperately with issues of diet and hyperkinesia caused by autism and severe intellectual disabilities during their child era. In addition, though mothers tried to “breaking patterns meal support to lose weight”, they tend to do “patterning support of the meal for the peace”.
Conclusion: These results suggest that nurses should help mothers to reinforce “breaking patterns meal support to lose weight” and to weaken “patterning support of the meal for the peace”.
