Seven- to nine-year-old children’s own assessment of health-related quality of life is important in preventing overweight and obesity
| Autor: | Birgit Peitersen, Ingrid Poulsen, Lis Wagner, Anne Brødsgaard, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
Self-Assessment Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Child Welfare Mothers 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Overweight 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) Surveys and Questionnaires Humans Medicine Obesity 030212 general & internal medicine Child Health related quality of life business.industry medicine.disease Proxy humanities Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Quality of Life medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Brødsgaard, A, Wagner, L, Peitersen, B, Sørensen, T I A & Poulsen, I 2016, ' Seven-to nine-year-old children's own assessment of health-related quality of life is important in preventing overweight and obesity ', Journal of Child Health Care, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 87-97 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493514551310 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2889 1367-4935 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1367493514551310 |
| Popis: | The aim was to study how, and to what degree, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), as assessed by children and their mothers, was related to overweight and obesity among children aged seven to nine years. Mother–child pairs of 149 non-overweight, 95 overweight and 16 obese children participated. We assessed HRQOL by the children’s self-report and parent proxy report module of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales. We found that non-overweight children scored HRQOL slightly higher than overweight ones but significantly higher than did obese children. The same pattern was seen for the mothers’ proxy HRQOL score and mothers in general scored higher than the children did. The results indicate that mothers in general were not sufficiently aware of how overweight and obesity affect their children’s HRQOL. The psychosocial dimension of HRQOL was the most important aspect for the children. Thus, there is a need for information of mothers/parents about the impact of overweight and obesity on children’s HRQOL. Such intervention by health professionals may among other interventions help to prevent and reduce overweight and obesity among children and thus help to increase the children’s HRQOL throughout their lives. |
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