Health related quality of life in obese, overweight and no overweight children from public schools of Cordoba city (Argentina).

MAMONDI, V; BERRA, S; ROMAN, D; LAVIN, J

Buenos Aires

Congreso; IUNS. 21st International Congress of Nutrition.; 2017

Background and objectivesThe prevalence of childhood obesity have steadily increased since more than four decades. Measures of health related quality of life (HRQoL) may contribute to know the impact of overweight on physical, social, and emotional well-being. Objective: to know the HRQoL in children according to their condition of excess weight.MethodsCross-sectional study conducted in a representative sample of 1577 children attending Municipal primary schools in the city of Cordoba, Argentina, in 2011. Children completed the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire measuring 10 dimensions of HQRoL. Body weight and height were measured to calculate BMI and to categorize excess weight according to IOTF and WHO definitions. Associations between variables were assessed using ANOVA, adopted 5% as the significance level. Between-group differences were assessed using Cohen?s ??d?? as a measure of effect size (ES). ES of 0.2?0.5 were considered small, those between 0.51 and 0.8 moderate, and those over 0.8 were considered large.ResultsThe prevalence of obesity was 11.1% using the IOTF definition and 16.5% using the WHO definition. The prevalence of overweight resulted in 20.7% and 22.7%, respectively. Obese children scored lower than no overweight children in dimension of Physical well-being, both girls (mean=49.2 versus 52.1; p