Quality of Life Is Influenced by Body Weight, Education, and Family Income in Adolescents with Chronic Diseases
Table 4
Effect of socioeconomic, demographic, and anthropometric variables on HRQoL dimensions of the total sample (n = 276).
Variables
HRQoL dimensions
Total Score
Physical health
Psychosocial health
Emotional functioning
Social functioning
School functioning
Socioeconomic
Parent-proxy education ESC
-
-
-
-
39.22 ± 12.80
-
Parent-proxy education HSC
-
-
-
-
-
-
Parent-proxy education IHE
26.50 ± 9.97
-
32.25 ± 9.89
-
-
56.42 ± 18.78
Parent-proxy education FHE
-
-
-
-
-
38.82 ± 17.76
Widowed parents
-12.27 ± 4.01
-16.53 ± 5.05
-13.17 ± 3.95
-
-
-
Separated parents
-
-
-
-
8.92 ± 3.10
-
Live with mother only
-
-
-
-
-
-19.69 ± 7.66
Income
-
0.02 ± 0.003
-
-
0.008 ± 0.002
-
Studying
-
13.91 ± 4.06
6.62 ± 3.26
-
-
-
Demographic
Citizen of another province/ state
-8.97 ± 2.89
-
-7.56 ± 2.83
-9.37 ± 4.41
-14.59 ± 4.02
-8.80 ± 4.07
Male
-
-
-
7.02 ± 2.72
-
-
Have brothers
7.44 ± 3.47
-
-
-
11.19 ± 5.18
-
Number of people in the household
-
-5.02 ± 1.53
-
-
-
-
Anthropometric
Perform physical activity
8.23 ± 2.25
11.09 ± 2.77
8.68 ± 2.25
-
-
-
Weight
-0.20 ± 0.07
-
-
-
-
-
BMI
-
-0.81 ± 0.26
-0.46 ± 0.18
-
-0.89 ± 0.31
-
Data were expressed in mean and standard deviation. ESC: Elementary School Complete; HSC: High School Complete; IHE: Incomplete Higher Education; FHE: Full Higher Education. p < .05; p < .01; p < .001 based on multiple linear regression.
