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Table 2 Comparison of adolescent self-reports and parent proxy-reports of total and domain-specific HRQoL for each BMI weight categorya

From: Adolescent body weight and health-related quality of life rated by adolescents and parents: the issue of measurement bias

 

Adolescent self-reports: mean (SD)

Parent proxy-reports: mean (SD)

Difference between adolescent self-reports and parent proxy-reports: mean (SD)

 

PF

EF

SoF

ScF

Total

PF

EF

SoF

ScF

Total

PF

EF

SoF

ScF

Total

Normal weight

82.7 (17.7)

78.1 (18.3)

83.8 (18.4)

72.5 (15.0)

79.0 (13.2)

74.1 (20.8)

74.7 (18.7)

73.9 (20.7)

69.2 (16.7)

72.9 (15.5)

8.6* (0.5)

3.4* (0.2)

9.9* (0.5)

3.3* (0.2)

6.1* (0.4)

Overweight

83.0 (18.0)

80.7 (15.5)

86.7 (13.6)

73.6 (13.6)

81.8 (9.9)

71.5 (23.9)

70.7 (17.8)

71.6 (21.2)

68.9 (20.8)

70.9 (16.3)

11.5* (0.5)

10.0* (0.5)

15.1* (0.6)

4.7 (0.2)

10.9* (0.6)

Obese

81.8 (17.5)

79.1 (20.1)

86.8 (13.9)

72.8 (16.1)

80.3 (13.3)

69.4 (21.4)

71.4 (19.1)

74.0 (18.7)

66.1 (19.4)

70.6 (16.5)

12.4* (0.6)

7.7* (0.4)

12.8* (0.6)

6.7* (0.4)

9.7* (0.6)

Obese & Overweight

82.2 (17.6)

79.7 (18.5)

86.8 (13.7)

73.1 (15.2)

80.8 (12.1)

70.1 (22.2)

71.2 (18.5)

73.1 (19.6)

67.1 (19.9)

70.7 (16.3)

12.1* (0.5)

8.5* (0.4)

13.7* (0.6)

6.0* (0.3)

10.2* (0.6)

  1. BMI body mass index, HRQoL health-related quality of life, PF physical functioning, EF emotional functioning, SoF social functioning, ScF school functioning
  2. *p < 0.05
  3. aAnalyses were based on Wilcoxon signed rank tests