Longitudinal Improvements in Health-Related Quality of Life Among Children Enrolled in the CANadian Paediatric Weight Management Registry (CANPWR) Over 3 Years
Marina Ybarra, Grace Rebekah, Geoff D. C. Ball, Annick Buchholz, Jill Hamilton, Josephine Ho, Ian Zenlea, Rajibul Mian, Lehana Thabane, Katherine M. Morrison, the CANPWR Investigators
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Abstract
Background
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) can be impaired in children with obesity. Utilising data from the CANadian Paediatric Weight Management Registry (CANPWR), we examined changes in HRQoL up to 3-year after enrollment in paediatric weight management programs (PWMP) and demographic, socioeconomic, behavioural and health-related factors associated with it.
Methods
Data were collected from 2013 to 2020. Child (≥ 8 years) and parent-reported HRQoL data were assessed via questionnaire (PedsQL4.0) at baseline, 6-month, 1-, 2- and 3-year post-baseline in PWMP. Over time, HRQoL and associations with demographic, anthropometric, behavioural and health services data were examined using linear effects and mixed effects models.
Findings
A total of 1145 participants were included at baseline (47.8% male; age 12.4 ± 3.3 years; BMI z-score: 3.5 ± 1.2; 68.8% White), 793 (69%) at 1- and 615 (54%) at 3-year post-baseline. Total HRQoL improved from baseline to 6-month and was higher at 3-year (child-total score: 69.9 ± 15.2 vs. 74.6 ± 14.5, p < 0.001; parent-total score: 64.6 ± 17.4 vs. 68.6 ± 17.0; p < 0.001). Total child-reported HRQoL was higher in boys (ß: 2.71, CI: 1.2–4.2; p < 0.01), children who identified as non-White (ß: 2.63, CI: 0.8–4.5; p < 0.01), and those with higher household incomes (ß: 3.65, CI: 1.6–5.7; p < 0.01), independent of BMI z-score. Higher total child-reported HRQoL scores were positively related to higher hours of clinic attendance (ß: 0.09 CI: 0.06–0.12; p < 0.01). In contrast, sleep disturbance, lower physical activity, and higher screen time were associated with lower total child-reported HRQoL independent of BMI z-score.
Conclusions
Both child- and parent-reported HRQoL scores improved over 3 years, and these changes were associated positively with clinic attendance and negatively with unhealthy behaviours.
期刊介绍:
Pediatric Obesity is a peer-reviewed, monthly journal devoted to research into obesity during childhood and adolescence. The topic is currently at the centre of intense interest in the scientific community, and is of increasing concern to health policy-makers and the public at large.
Pediatric Obesity has established itself as the leading journal for high quality papers in this field, including, but not limited to, the following:
Genetic, molecular, biochemical and physiological aspects of obesity – basic, applied and clinical studies relating to mechanisms of the development of obesity throughout the life course and the consequent effects of obesity on health outcomes
Metabolic consequences of child and adolescent obesity
Epidemiological and population-based studies of child and adolescent overweight and obesity
Measurement and diagnostic issues in assessing child and adolescent adiposity, physical activity and nutrition
Clinical management of children and adolescents with obesity including studies of treatment and prevention
Co-morbidities linked to child and adolescent obesity – mechanisms, assessment, and treatment
Life-cycle factors eg familial, intrauterine and developmental aspects of child and adolescent obesity
Nutrition security and the "double burden" of obesity and malnutrition
Health promotion strategies around the issues of obesity, nutrition and physical activity in children and adolescents
Community and public health measures to prevent overweight and obesity in children and adolescents.