Health related quality of life in 10-year-old schoolchildren

Laaksonen, Camilla; Aromaa, Minna; Heinonen, Olli J.; Koivusilta, Leena; Koski, Pasi; Suominen, Sakari; Vahlberg, Tero; Salanterä, Sanna

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“…Although the average QOL scores of most domains for our subjects marginally met the 70% cut-off recommended by Cummins, and which is supported by data from several countries, the pattern of scores was similar to the international data because in all the available reports [9,11,12,15,16,30,38], the score for the psychological health domain was the least, in comparison with all other domains of QOL. It has been suggested that the low score on psychological health indicates that the students need access to programs and services that address their mental health needs [8].…”

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“…In the sixth study, the children had a mean total PedsQOL score of 67.2, which the authors considered to be relatively low [8]. Other studies from Finland (75.4% - 85.0%) [38] and the USA (78.2% - 84.0%) [30] had similar findings. This is supported by similar data from non-western countries, such as Korea (82.6% - 93.5%) [12], Brazil (73.0% - 93.1%) [15], and Iran (71.7% - 90.9%) [16].…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Thus, while reports of adolescent samples (>12 years) consistently found that poorer QOL was significantly associated with female gender and older age [3,5,16,38-41], the reports that involved children who were less than 12 years of age either found that there were no significant gender differences [42], or that the girls had significantly better QOL [13,14,43]. In addition, poorer QOL was associated with poor physical health, psychic distress, and low self-esteem [7-9].…”

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Profile of subjective quality of life and its correlates in a nation-wide sample of high school students in an Arab setting using the WHOQOL-Bref

Al‐Fayez

Ohaeri²

2011

BMC Psychiatry

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BackgroundThe upsurge of interest in the quality of life (QOL) of children is in line with the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, which stressed the child's right to adequate circumstances for physical, mental, and social development. The study's objectives were to: (i) highlight how satisfied Kuwaiti high school students were with life circumstances as in the WHOQOL-Bref; (ii) assess the prevalence of at risk status for impaired QOL and establish the QOL domain normative values; and (iii) examine the relationship of QOL with personal, parental, and socio-environmental factors.MethodA nation-wide sample of students in senior classes in government high schools (N = 4467, 48.6% boys; aged 14-23 years) completed questionnaires that included the WHOQOL-Bref.ResultsUsing Cummins' norm of 70% - 80%, we found that, as a group, they barely achieved the well-being threshold score for physical health (70%), social relations (72.8%), environment (70.8%) and general facet (70.2%), but not for psychological health (61.9%). These scores were lower than those reported from other countries. Using the recommended cut-off of <1SD of population mean, the prevalence of at risk status for impaired QOL was 12.9% - 18.8% (population age-adjusted: 15.9% - 21.1%). In all domains, boys had significantly higher QOL than girls, mediated by anxiety/depression; while the younger ones had significantly higher QOL (p < 0.001), mediated by difficulty with studies and social relations. Although poorer QOL was significantly associated with parental divorce and father's low socio-economic status, the most important predictors of poorer QOL were perception of poor emotional relationship between the parents, poor self-esteem and difficulty with studies.ConclusionPoorer QOL seemed to reflect a circumstance of social disadvantage and poor psychosocial well-being in which girls fared worse than boys. The findings indicate that programs that address parental harmony and school programs that promote study-friendly atmospheres could help to improve psychosocial well-being. The application of QOL as a school population health measure may facilitate risk assessment and the tracking of health status.

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Profile of subjective quality of life and its correlates in a nation-wide sample of high school students in an Arab setting using the WHOQOL-Bref

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Ohaeri²

2011

BMC Psychiatry

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“…Although some studies have recently analysed sociodemographic and socioeconomic differences in HRQOL in general populations of children and adolescents [10][11][12][13], we could find only two articles that have assessed the HRQOL of elementary school children using comprehensive population samples [14,15]. Furthermore, background variables like neighbourhood characteristics have been shown to have impact on individual health and healthrelated behaviours in children and adults [16][17][18].…”

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Sociodemographic and neighbourhood determinants of health-related quality of life among grade-five students in Canada

Öhinmaa

Veugelers

2010

Qual Life Res

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“…[7]. Researchers address serious concern regarding the emotional well-being of present day adolescents in general [8][9][10] and there have been suggestions that social media may increase and create new mental health problems, such as addiction to social networking, in certain populations [11].The evidence addressing the addictive qualities of social networks are however scarce and social media is mostly used for common social purposes. It has been suggested that extravert personalities use social networking for social communication.…”

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Utilising Social Media for Intervening and Predicting Future Health in Societies

Laaksonen

Jalonen

Paavola

2014

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. Background: The aims of this paper are to describe 1. systematic reviews describing the relation between social media and health and 2. previous research on utilising social media for predicting health on a population level. Method: A literature search utilising PubMed was performed in March 2014.The inclusion criteria were that the article describes 1. the relation between social media and health or 2. the utilisation of social media in predicting health on a population level. Results: 11 systematic reviews and 4 articles were included in this review. The included articles were published between 2009-2014. There is a lack of knowledge about the relation and outcomes of social media and health. No systematic review on utilising social media to predict health on a population level was identified. Conclusions: Social media may carry crucial yet undiscovered means to predict and interfere in the health of populations. Future research, innovation and development in this area are highly recommended.Keywords: Social media, public health, health promotion. IntroductionSocial media herein refers to a constellation of Internet-based applications that derive their value from the participation of users through directly creating original content, modifying existing material, contributing to a community dialogue and integrating various media together to create something unique [1]. Popular social media sites magnetise hundreds of users nowadays -the leading site is Facebook, which has well over a billion active users. Twitter, VK, Sina Weibo, to name a few other sites, have also reported rapid growth. A sophisticated guess is that in the OECD countries, two thirds of the population use social media more or less regularly. In fact, social media has integrated into the lives of people. Social media has brought with it 'media life', which Deuze [2] calls "the state where media has become so inseparable from us that we do not live with media, but in it" [3]. In a hyperconnected and networked society posts on Twitter may become a meme -a rapidly spreading and mutating piece of information [4]. Utilising Social Media for Intervening and Predicting Future Health in Societies 101In contrast to traditional mass communication, social media is an unregulated context which allows ordinary people to publish almost anything that come to their minds. Presumably social media carries several benefits as well as challenges for health and well-being on the individual, community and national but also on the continental and global levels. Social media has been suggested to be useful in the context of health promotion for purposes such as sharing information, developing positive brand pictures, expanding the reach of health promotion interventions to diverse audiences, supporting target group empowerment, engagement and participation. These features carry several benefits for health promoting but also for health contradictive purposes. [5][6].Knowledge of how social media is related to health is still lacking but the body of knowledge in...

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Health related quality of life in 10-year-old schoolchildren

Abstract: Interventions aiming at supporting the emotional and school functioning of the school children are recommended. Parents may overestimate the social and school functioning and underestimate the physical and emotional functioning compared to their children's own perceptions.

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Profile of subjective quality of life and its correlates in a nation-wide sample of high school students in an Arab setting using the WHOQOL-Bref

Profile of subjective quality of life and its correlates in a nation-wide sample of high school students in an Arab setting using the WHOQOL-Bref

Sociodemographic and neighbourhood determinants of health-related quality of life among grade-five students in Canada

Utilising Social Media for Intervening and Predicting Future Health in Societies

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