title: A biopsychosocial pilot study of overweight youth and care providers' perceptions of quality of life.
abstract: This pilot study examined the relationship between youth and care provider self-reports of depressive symptoms assessed through the Patient Health Questionnaire and reports of youth physical and psychosocial functioning assessed by PedsQL4.0 in a rural outpatient overweight pediatric population (N = 66 child and care provider pairs). The relationship between youth body mass index (BMI), youth and care provider depression, youth quality of life (QOL), care provider perception of youth QOL, and youth and care provider congruence of QOL perceptions was examined. Paired t tests were completed to assess the differences between QOL scores for youth and care providers for subgroups based on age, age and gender, and age and race. The mean age of youth participants was 11.9 years; youth BMI ranged from 26.76 to 54.10 (M = 37.20). Our results showed that there are significant differences in youth and care providers' perceptions of QOL when specific demographic categories are assessed by age, gender, and race.
authors: RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. prattk@ecu.edu
authors: Keeley J
authors: KJ
authors: Pratt
authors: Angela L
authors: AL
authors: Lamson
authors: Suzanne
authors: S
authors: Lazorick
authors: Melvin S
authors: MS
authors: Swanson
authors: Jaclyn
authors: J
authors: Cravens
authors: David N
authors: DN
authors: Collier
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D015992:Body Mass Index; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D050177:Overweight / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D010465:Perception; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011584:Psychology; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires