ArticleBMC pediatrics2013
Health related quality of life of obese adolescents in Kuwait.
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- Differences in educational attainment between obese and non-obese Kuwaiti female university students.Journal of nutritional science · 2020Article
- Prevalence of body dissatisfaction and its effects on health-related quality of life among primary school students in Guangzhou, China.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Weight associated factors in relation to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Iranian adolescents.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2019Article
- Prevalence of obesity among school-age children and adolescents in the Gulf cooperation council (GCC) states: a systematic review.BMC obesity · 2019Article
- Human development index, children's health-related quality of life and movement behaviors: a compositional data analysis.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2018Article
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- A systematic review of childhood obesity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: Prevalence and risk factors meta-analysis.Advances in pediatric research · 2017Article
- A systematic review of childhood obesity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: Health impact and management.Advances in pediatric research · 2017Article
- Relationship between weight status and health-related quality of life in Chinese primary school children in Guangzhou: a cross-sectional study.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2016Article
- Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Obese Adolescent.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2016Article
- The relationship between obesity and quality of life in Brazilian adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- Prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors and metabolic syndrome in obese Kuwaiti adolescents.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundObesity impairs health related quality of life (HRQL) in adolescents, but most evidence in this area has mostly come from western societies. We wanted to test the hypothesis that obesity impairs HRQL in Kuwaiti adolescents, and to test for differences in HRQL assessed by self-report and parent-proxy report.
methodsIn 500 Kuwaiti 10-14 year olds HRQL was assessed using the Peds QL(TM) with both adolescent self-reports (n = 500) and parent-proxy reports (n = 374).
resultsObesity was not significantly associated with HRQL in regression analysis. In a paired comparison of 98 pairs of obese adolescents vs. 98 healthy weight peers, impairment of HRQL reached significance only for physical score (95% CI = -1.5, -9.4), not for psychosocial score or total score. In a paired comparison of parent-proxy vs. self-reports for the obese adolescents, total score (95% CI = -4.9, -10.9), physical score (95% CI = -3.2, -11.0), and psychosocial score (95% CI = -4.2, -10.8) were all significantly lower in the parent reports.
conclusionsObesity is not associated with marked impairment of HRQL in adolescents in Kuwait, in contrast to studies in western societies. This may reflect cultural differences in attitudes towards obesity.
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