Health-related quality of life in a clinical sample of obese children and adolescents

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Riazi, Afsane ^a   Shakoor, Sania ^b   Dundas, Isobel ^c   Eiser, Christine ^d   McKenzie, Sheila A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBESITY; PEDIATRIC QUALITY OF LIFE INVENTORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM; EMOTION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; OBESITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 78149449378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-134     Document Type: Article

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