Shingo Konno, MD, PhD, Emi Ishima, NS, Toshiki Kubota, MD, Mayumi Murata, MD,
Noriko Kawanami, NS, Maiko Wakasa, NS, Tomonori Sato, DT, Risa Haraki, DT,
Yuko Okuyama, PH, Mimi Nishimura, DH, Fumiko Shimizu, PhD, Daiji Yamazaki, DT,
Toshiki Fujioka, MD, PhD
Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci 8: 56-65, 2017
Objective: This study investigated whether a dysphagia
diet, such as a mousse diet, caused low diet intake with
a deterioration of psychological status.
Methods: Eleven healthy females were divided into
two groups: normal and mousse diet. Subjects ate
these diets three times a day for three consecutive
days. The changes over time in diet intake, dietary
assessment, appetite, craving for a specific taste, and
mood status were compared between the two groups.
Results: At almost all evaluation points, the diet intake
and dietary assessment values were higher in the
normal diet group than in the mousse diet group. The
anger-hostility and fatigue-inertia measures of mood
status temporarily differed significantly between the
two groups; anger-hostility increased in the mousse
diet group, while fatigue-inertia decreased in the
normal diet group (p = 0.040, p = 0.041). Positive
effectors of diet intake amount were the taste of the
diet and a craving for sweet-tasting items before the
meals (partial regression coefficients 0.798 and 0.207,
p < 0.001 and p = 0.005, respectively), while appetite,
mood status, and a craving for other specific tastes
before the meals did not have a considerable effect on
diet intake.
Conclusions: These results demonstrate that a mousse
diet is one of the causes of low diet intake and mood
fluctuation.
Key words: deglutition, mousse diet, food intake, Profile of Mood States