Health-Related Quality of Life in Urban Elementary Schoolchildren

Abstract

Young urban children self-report low HRQOL scores and do so as early as the 2nd grade. These low scores, which reflect children's own perceptions of impaired psychological and physical health, have potential implications for the success of urban children in their learning environments. The association between HRQOL and school connectedness might suggest that health and educational programs that improve a child's attachment to school could result in improved perceptions of health by urban children.

Quality of Life of Multiethnic Adolescents Living with a Parent with Cancer

“…The reason for this as offered by Grant and Compas (1995) was that when the mother was ill, adolescent girls had higher levels of internalizing behavior than boys or when the father was ill. Additionally, adolescents whose family had monthly household incomes of RM5000 and below had significantly worst functioning and worst overall quality of life compared to adolescents with more monthly household income. This finding is similar with prior study linking the negative impact of lower socioeconomic status and the quality of life of healthy school children (Mansour et al, 2003;Rueden et al, 2006). The correlations between socioeconomic status and the quality of life of children with severe illnesses have been reported too (Erickson et al, 2002;FelderPuig et al, 2008).…”

Quality of life among children from São Paulo, Brazil: the impact of demographic, family and socioeconomic variables

“…less education, however, in a previous Brazilian study 2 as well as Mansour et al 5 and Felder-Puig et al 3 , this hypothesis revealed false: parents from lower social classes search for better quality formal education. Moreover, the daily struggle of parents for better health related quality of life for their children, in all aspects, is a universal truth.…”

“…Some studies 3,4,5,6 have shown that parents have a greater facility in accurately assessing the physical and educational aspects of their children's development, but not the emo- Table 1 Demographic data by child's gender, level of education of principal guardian, family situation and socioeconomic classifi cation (n = 240). Table 2 Mean scores (SD) for the PedsQL 4.0 generic core scales for child self-report and parent proxy-report.…”

“…would have a very strong impact in the emotional state of the children and adolescents, independent of age. Some studies carried out in other countries have shown a clear reduction of health related quality of life scores in families with lower income, higher rates of unemployment and minimal education of the guardians 4,5,6 . In our study more than two thirds of families came from disadvantaged social classes and the children presented lower health related quality of life scores for emotional and social aspects, with a consequent lower total score.…”

Health‐related quality of life in children with sickle cell disease: child and parent perception

“…Because of the limited data on what factors may impact the HRQL of a child with sickle cell disease, a stepwise regression analysis was used as an exploratory tool to identify potentially important patient and disease factors associated with HRQL. The variables displayed in Tables I and II, all shown to affect HRQL previously (Flores et al, 1999;Asmussen et al, 2000;Kahn et al, 2002;Palermo et al, 2002;Mansour et al, 2003), were examined in the stepwise regression model as independent variables to determine their influence on HRQL.…”