FAMILY VIEW: QUALITY OF LIFE AND FAMILY FUNCTIONING

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 在过去的三十年里，儿童肥胖症的流行率急剧上升，目前的估计表明，大约15.5%的儿童和青少年肥胖。有越来越多的文献记录了肥胖对健康的影响，然而，儿童肥胖更大的直接代价可能是心理社会。本研究的主要目的是验证5-18岁青少年(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。其他目的是在寻求治疗的肥胖青年中检查父母的HRQOL和其子女的HRQOL的父母代理报告之间的关系，以及与HRQOL相关的父母和儿童因素。拟议的研究分两个阶段进行。阶段1.我们计划收集来自CCHMC HealthWorks推荐的150名儿童/青少年及其主要照顾者(S)的数据！体重管理计划。我们计划收集50名5-13岁的儿童和50名14-18岁的青少年及其父母在家庭环境中的重测数据。对肥胖特定测量方法的心理测量学特性的初步数据分析将包括几个阶段，包括条目减少、评估量表可靠性、重测可靠性以及收敛和区分效度。进一步的分析将被用来检验父母的HRQOL、亲代HRQOL、儿童HRQOL、感知的社会支持和育儿压力之间的关系。

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.