Promoting healthier lifestyles in people with intellectual disabilities is important in order to improve health and reduce health inequalities. Few studies have explored how health-promotion interventions for people with intellectual disabilities in community-based settings are experienced. The aim of this study was to explore residents’, staff members’ and rehabilitation professionals’ experiences of how a health-promotion intervention affected the habits of people living in a group home regarding eating habits and physical activities and staffs’ ways of working. Semi-structured group interviews were conducted with five residents, six staff members and five rehabilitation professionals. The group discussions were analysed with content analysis separately for each group. Four different categories described residents’, staff members’ and rehabilitation professionals’ views respectively. It is suggested that including people with intellectual disabilities as active parties throughout the process would facilitate implementation of a health-promotion profile in community residences.
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