Health-related quality of life of severely obese children and adolescents.
By J. Schwimmer, Tasha M. Burwinkle, J. Varni. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2003
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Subfields: General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Parent proxy-report of their children's health-related quality of life: an analysis of 13,878 parents' reliability and validity across age subgroups using the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales (2007, neutral): “92 (b), and not specifically research purposes, parents and children did not complete informed consent forms [28].”
- Pediatric Obesity-Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline. (2017, positive): “Obesity is associated with QOL, with levels measured in obese children and adolescents equivalent to those seen in pediatric cancer or diabetes (235, 236).”
- Students' motivational responses toward school physical education and their relationship to general self-esteem and health-related quality of life. (2007, background): “Previous work has found the PedsQL 4 to be a reliable and valid measure of HRQoL in adolescent populations ( Schwimmer, Burwinkle, & Varni, 2003; Varni, Seid, & Kurtin, 2001).”
- Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health. (2004, result): “In one study of severely obese children in the USA the quality of life scores were substantially lower than those of non-obese children, and were similar to the scores of children diagnosed as having cancer (204).”