Predictors and correlates of health-related quality of life and morbidity in overweight/obese adolescents: cohort study

超重/肥胖青少年健康相关生活质量和发病率的预测因子和相关性：队列研究

• 批准号: nhmrc : 334303
• 负责人: A/Pr Joanne Williams
• 金额: $ 34.18万
• 依托单位: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: NHMRC Project Grants
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://researchdata.edu.au/predictors-correlates-health-cohort-study/77441
• 关键词: Predictors; correlates; health; related; quality

There is now no doubting the size and long-term risks to health of the childhood obesity epidemic. However, very little research has examined at population level its immediate consequences for mental health and physical functioning, what pathways confer risk and protection for these consequences, and their likely healthcare consequences. This study will utilise an existing cohort of approximately 1500 Victorian adolescents followed since childhood to examine neglected aspects of the genesis and impacts of overweight and obesity. The Health of Young Victorians Study was originally assembled in 1997 when the children were in Grades Prep-3. In addition to information on putative risk and protective factors for overweight-obesity and direct measures of height and weight, it is unique in having collected data on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) since children were first recruited during the early primary school years. Eight years after the first wave, the children will be adolescents in Grades 8-11. This third wave will retain a focus on HRQoL. Innovations include study of potential emotional, behavioural and physical consequences of childhood obesity that may in turn affect the natural history of obesity. This large, population-based longitudinal study will redress neglected aspects of child and adolescent overweight-obesity specifically identified in 2003 by the NH and MRC. As well as establishing whether a range of common problems are related to overweight-obesity, it will be able to shed light on mechanisms of adverse outcomes associated with adolescent overweight-obesity, and study protective factors predicting remitting overweight from childhood to adolescence that may inform preventive activities. The study will make an international contribution to knowledge about pathways, prevalence and preventive opportunities for child and adolescent overweight-obesity.

现在，儿童肥胖流行病的规模和对健康的长期风险是毫无疑问的。然而，很少有研究在人群水平上研究其对心理健康和身体功能的直接影响，哪些途径赋予这些后果的风险和保护，以及它们可能的医疗后果。这项研究将利用现有的约1500名维多利亚州青少年的队列，从童年开始，检查被忽视的方面的成因和超重和肥胖的影响。青少年健康研究最初是在1997年组装的，当时孩子们在3年级准备。除了关于超重-肥胖的假定风险和保护因素以及身高和体重的直接测量的信息外，它还收集了关于健康相关生活质量的数据，因为儿童首次招募是在小学早期。第一波八年后，孩子们将在8-11年级的青少年。第三次浪潮将继续关注HRQoL。创新包括研究儿童肥胖症的潜在情感，行为和身体后果，这些后果可能反过来影响肥胖症的自然史。这项大型的、以人群为基础的纵向研究将纠正2003年由NH和MRC特别确定的儿童和青少年超重-肥胖被忽视的方面。除了确定一系列常见问题是否与超重-肥胖有关外，它还将能够阐明与青少年超重-肥胖有关的不良后果的机制，并研究预测从儿童到青少年超重缓解的保护因素，这些因素可能为预防活动提供信息。这项研究将为了解儿童和青少年超重-肥胖的途径、流行率和预防机会做出国际贡献。