ArticleThe journal of spinal cord medicine2007
Impact of spinal cord dysfunction and obesity on the health-related quality of life of children and adolescents.
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- Overview of psychosocial health among youth with spinal cord injury.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2013Article
- Overweight and its impact on the health-related quality of life in children and adolescents: results from the European KIDSCREEN survey.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2012Article
- A review of the potential for cardiometabolic dysfunction in youth with spina bifida and the role for physical activity and structured exercise.International journal of pediatrics · 2012Article
- The Devil Is in the Details: Not All AED-Associated Major Congenital Malformations Are Equal.Epilepsy currents · 2011Article
- Relationship between clinical outcome measures and parent proxy reports of health-related quality of life in ambulatory children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.Journal of child neurology · 2010Article
- Adiposity is increased among high-functioning, non-ambulatory patients with spinal muscular atrophy.Neuromuscular disorders : NMD · 2010Article
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- Quality of life: Guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicineReview
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Abstract
objectivesThe objectives of this study were: (1) to compare the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children and adolescents with mobility impairments due to spinal cord injury (SCI) and spina bifida (SB) to the HRQOL of children and adolescent controls without mobility impairments (CTRL); and (2) to examine the impact of of obesity on the HRQOL of these subjects.
methodsThe Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) was administered to 42 SB, 71 SCI and 60 able-bodied subjects who were 8-20 years of age. Subjects were categorized as obese if their BMI exceeded the 95th percentile for age. Twenty-one CTRL, 26 SB and 26 SCI subjects were obese.
resultsThe SCI and SB subjects had significantly lower subscores than the control subjects on the physical (p < 0.001), emotional (p < .01), social (p < .001), and school (p < .001) domains of the PedsQL. The obese (CTRL) group had lower subscores on the physical (p < 0.001), social (p < 0.001), and psychosocial (p < 0.001) domains of the PedsQL as compared to the non-obese CTRL group, while there were no significant differences in subscores from the emotional and school domains. In contrast to the subjects without mobility impairment, there were no significant differences between the sub-scores of the obese and non-obese subjects with spinal cord dysfunction secondary to SCI or SB. The mean total PedsQL score of the non-obese control group (87.7 +/- 2.1) was significantly higher than the obese control group (75.2 +/- 3.4, p < 0.02), which in turn was significantly higher than the SCI group (63.7 +/- 2.2, p < 0.02), and the SB group (63.0 +/- 2.2, p < 0.02).
conclusionPatients with SCI and SB have significantly lower HRQOL than children and adolescents without mobility impairments. Whereas obesity significantly reduces the quality of life scores of adolescents without mobility impairments, it has no significant incremental effect on subjects with SCI or SB.
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