FAMILY VIEW: QUALITY OF LIFE AND FAMILY FUNCTIONING

该子项目是利用NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的许多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为中心机构，不一定为研究者机构。在过去的三十年中，儿童肥胖症的患病率急剧增加，目前估计约有15.5%的儿童和青少年肥胖。有越来越多的文献记载了肥胖对健康的影响，然而，儿童肥胖的更大直接成本可能是心理社会的。本研究的主要目的是验证青少年（5-18岁）肥胖特定健康相关生活质量（HRQOL）的自我报告和父母代理测量值。另外的目的是检查父母HRQOL和父母代理报告的儿童的HRQOL和父母和儿童因素与HRQOL肥胖寻求治疗的青年之间的关系。拟议的研究分为两个阶段。第一阶段。我们计划收集150名儿童/青少年及其主要照顾者的数据，这些儿童/青少年及其主要照顾者被转介到CCHMC HealthWorks！体重管理计划。第二阶段。第一阶段的参与者将被邀请参加第二阶段。我们计划收集50名5-13岁儿童和50名14-18岁青少年及其父母在家庭环境中的重测数据。初步的数据分析的心理测量学特性的肥胖的具体措施将包括几个阶段，包括项目减少，评估量表的可靠性，重测信度，收敛和判别效度。本研究将进一步分析父母的健康生活质量、父母代理的健康生活质量、儿童的健康生活质量、感知的社会支持和养育压力之间的关系。

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.