dietary factors associated with obesity in patients with schizophrenia living at home饮食因素与肥胖有关精神分裂症患者住在家里.pdfVIP

Food and Nutrition Sciences, 2012, 3, 1387-1396 1387 /10.4236/fns.2012.310182 Published Online October 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/fns) Dietary Factors Associated with Obesity in Patients with Schizophrenia Living at Home 1 2 2 3 1 Yukiko Inamura , Teiji Izumi , Kouji Sakurai , Takemi Katsui , Nobuko Murayama 1Department of Health and Nutrition, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan; 2Kohdo Mental Hospital, Niigata, 3 Japan; Matsunami Clinic, Niigata, Japan. Email: inamura@nuhw.ac.jp th th st Received July 27 , 2012; revised August 24 , 2012; accepted September 1 , 2012 ABSTRACT Since a fact-finding survey was conducted in 2004 all over Japan on the eating habits of psychiatric patients living at home, and the results showed that 44.6% of the patients were obese. We carried out a study of dietary factors associated with obesity in patients with schizophrenia living at home in order to develop a dietary education program. Twenty obese patients and 20 non-obese patients were randomly selected from 30 - 50s male patients with schizophrenia in one mental hospital. Dietary survey of 3-non-consecutive-day was conducted. Eighteen obese patients and 17 non-obese patients completed the survey. The obese patients had significantly higher intake of carbohydrate (P = 0.02), consump- tion of snacks with junk foods (P = 0.04), and intake of energy from snacks (P 0.001) than those of non-obese pa- tients. Based on this dietary survey, it becomes necessary to focus on snacks, in addition to basic focus on balanced diet to prevent further obesity in those schizophrenic patients. Keywords: Diet