title: Health-Related Quality of Life in Overweight/Obese Children Compared With Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examined the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of pediatric patients with overweight/obesity compared with that of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Differences between disease groups in their PedsQL 4.0 HRQOL survey scores were analyzed using unpaired t tests and analyses of variance.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Scores of patients with overweight/obesity were as low as scores of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Parent/guardian-proxy social functioning scores of the overweight/obese group were statistically significantly lower than scores of the inflammatory bowel disease group, and the parents/guardians reported significantly lower HRQOL scores than the patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Overweight/obese children have HRQOL scores as impaired as those of children with inflammatory bowel disease. According to proxy-reported scores, overweight/obesity is associated with lower social functioning. Thus, it is important for health care providers to recognize obesity's relationship to patients' psychosocial health and provide holistic care that addresses the severity of this disease.
authors.affiliation: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA amy.l.faus@rutgers.edu.
authors.forename: Amy L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Faus
authors.affiliation: Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Renee M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Turchi
authors.affiliation: Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Polansky
authors.affiliation: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berez
authors.affiliation: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Karen L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Leibowitz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009515:New Jersey / Q000453:epidemiology; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: health-related quality of life; inflammatory bowel disease; obesity; pediatrics