FAMILY VIEW: QUALITY OF LIFE AND FAMILY FUNCTIONING

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The prevalence of pediatric obesity has increased dramatically in the past three decades with current estimates indicating that approximately 15.5% of children and adolescents are obese. There is a growing literature documenting the health consequences of obesity, however, the greater immediate costs of pediatric obesity may be psychosocial. The primary purpose of this study is to validate both a self-report and parent-proxy measure of obesity-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for youth (ages 5-18). Additional aims are to examine the relation between parent HRQOL and parent-proxy reports of their child's HRQOL and parent and child factors associated with HRQOL in obese treatment-seeking youth. The proposed study has two phases. Phase 1. We plan to collect data from 150 children/adolescents and their primary caregiver(s) referred to the CCHMC HealthWorks! weight management program. Phase 2. Participants in Phase 1 will be approached for Phase 2. We plan to collect test-retest data on 50 children ages 5-13 and 50 adolescents ages 14-18 and their parents in their home environment. Preliminary data analyses on the psychometric properties of the obesity-specific measures will include several phases, including item reduction, assessing scale reliabilities, test-retest reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity. Additional analyses will be conducted examining the relations between parent HRQOL, parent-proxy HRQOL, child HRQOL, perceived social support, and parenting stress.