ArticleBMC public health2020
Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity: results from the German KIGGS survey.
Article in BMC public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- Predicting Psychosocial Health of Children and Adolescents with Obesity in Germany: The Underappreciated Role of Physical Fitness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- The associations of BMI-for-age with cardiometabolic and inflammatory markers, lifestyle and quality of life in 6-12-year-old children in Finland.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Community-Based Combined Lifestyle Interventions for Children with Overweight or Obesity: Exploring the Professional Teams Composition and Approach to Collaboration.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sex-related difference of subcortical gray matter volume associated with crystallized intelligence in young adults with obesity.Biology of sex differences · 2026Article
- Body Composition and Its Correlates in Children and Adolescents Living in Germany: A Cross-Sectional Study.European journal of sport science · 2025Article
- Mapping the Published Evidence on Childhood Obesity Prevalence and Related Policies in Greece: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Shape of You: Eye-Tracking and Social Perceptions of the Human Body.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- What Shapes Quality of Life in Youth? A Multidimensional Approach from Lifestyle to Residential Context-Cor-School Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Physical activity and weight status of children in Germany: cross-sectional results from the MoMo Wave 3 (2018-2020).European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Experiences and overall impact reported by people living with obesity: results from a multinational study.SAGE open medicine · 2025Article
- A New Lens on Childhood Obesity: Developing and Validating the Obesity-Related Well-Being (ORWB) Scale for Assessing Well-Being in Obese Children and Adolescents.Journal of obesity · 2025Article
- Health promotion in German kindergartens-design and methods of the exploratory, cluster-randomized, mixed methods KNEIPP-KITA Bavaria study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Planning policies to restrict fast food and inequalities in child weight in England: a quasi-experimental analysis.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2024Article
- Prevalence of Childhood Obesity Among Children and Adolescents in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Article
- The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: is there a connection between the body mass indexes of adolescents and their parents?International journal of adolescent medicine and health · 2024Article
- Revealing Molecular Mechanisms of the Bioactive Saponins from Edible Root ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Factors influencing health-related quality of life of children with overweight and obesity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Article
- Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundThe well-being of persons with overweight and obesity, in particular of children and adolescents, may be impaired. The present study investigates the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of girls and boys with overweight and obesity living in Germany as compared to those of normal-weight, while taking a selection of relevant determinants of HRQoL into account.
methodsThe sample comprises 1771 children and adolescents aged 11 to 17 years that took part in the cross-sectional German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KIGGS Wave 2, 2014-2017). Sex-and age-specific BMI (kg/m
results18.7% of the children and adolescents under study were affected by overweight and among them 8.0% by obesity. After adjusting for potential confounders, overweight and obesity were associated with lower physical well-being as compared to normal weight in both sexes (boys with overweight: standardized beta [β] = -.14, standard error [SE] = .03, p < .001, and obesity: β = -.16, SE = .03, p < .001; girls with overweight: β = -.09, SE = .04, p = .011, and obesity: β = -.11, SE = .03, p = .003). Results moreover suggest lower levels of psychological (β = -.10, SE = .04, p = .002) and parent-related well-being (β = -.08, SE = .04, p = .036) of boys with obesity as compared to normal-weight peers.
conclusionHRQoL of German children and adolescents with overweight and obesity is impaired according to physical well-being in general, while psychological and parent-related well-being is particularly affected in boys. Public health approaches should therefore promote children and adolescents with overweight and obesity by improving diverse facets of HRQoL as well as relevant associated factors (i.e., media consumption, self-efficacy) in general and in boys in particular.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.