AIM: The study was aimed to examine the appropriateness of using the Mini Nutritional Assessment to screen for risk of under- and over-nutrition in adults with @entity717 . BACKGROUND: @entity1 with @entity717 are at increased risk of @entity3147 , but routine monitoring of their nutritional conditions are not widely done. DESIGN: The study purposively recruited 104 institutionalised adults (>= 19 years old) with @entity717 to serve as @entity1 . METHODS: @entity1 were interviewed with a structured questionnaire to elicit personal data, health-related information and answers to items in the Activities of Daily Living and the Mini Nutritional Assessment scales and measured for anthropometrics. Biochemical data were taken from their routine medical measurements. Each subject was graded with the Mini Nutritional Assessment that adopted Taiwanese-specific anthropometric cut-off points (T1) and an alternative version that omitted the body mass index item (T2). RESULTS: Both Mini Nutritional Assessment versions were able indentifying individuals at risk of @entity3147 among adults with @entity717 and rated comparable proportions of @entity1 malnourished (6  7 and 5  8% for Mini Nutritional Assessment-T1 and Mini Nutritional Assessment-T2, respectively) or at risk of @entity3147 (14  4 and 17  3%, respectively). @entity1 with @entity306 were at greater risk of malnourishment than @entity1 with other disabilities. CONCLUSION: The Mini Nutritional Assessment is appropriate for screening for under- and over-nutrition in adults with @entity717 . The Mini Nutritional Assessment (especially the version without body mass index) can make routine monitoring of nutritional status of these @entity1 an easier task. However, further studies are needed to develop subtype-specific versions (tools) as various subtypes of @entity717 are associated with different nutritional problems. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: The Mini Nutritional Assessment can serve as a tool for routine screening for under- and over-nutrition in @entity1 with @entity717 .

The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is useful for assessing the risk of XXXX in adults with @entity717 .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'Persons', 'patients', 'Participants', 'persons'] @entity717 :: ('MESH:D009069', 'Disease') :: ['intellectual disabilities', 'intellectual disability'] @entity3147 :: ('MESH:D044342', 'Disease') :: ['malnutrition'] @entity306 :: ('MESH:D002547', 'Disease') :: ['cerebral palsy']
@entity3147 :: (MESH:D044342,Disease) :: ['malnutrition']
