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Development of A Suicide Prevention Training Module for Social Work Students in India
Indian journal of psychological medicine
negative effects childhood overweight obesity quality life qol shown clinical samples yet populationbased community samplesto determine relationships weight healthrelated qol reported parentproxy child selfreport population sample elementary school childrencrosssectional data collected 2000 within health young victorians study longitudinal cohort study commenced 1997 individuals recruited via random 2stage sampling design primary schools victoria australia 1943 children original cohort 1569 808 resurveyed 3 years later mean age 104 yearshealthrelated qol using pedsql 40 survey completed parentproxy child selfreport summary scores childrens total physical psychosocial health subscale scores emotional social school functioning compared weight category based international obesity task force cut pointsof 1456 participants 1099 755 children classified overweight 294 202 overweight 63 43 obese parentproxy child selfreported pedsql scores decreased increasing child weight parentproxy total pedsql mean sd score children overweight 831 125 overweight 800 136 obese 750 145 p001 respective child selfreported total pedsql mean sd scores 805 122 793 128 740 142 p001 subscale level child parentproxy reported scores similar showing decreases physical social functioning obese children compared children overweight p001 decreases emotional school functioning scores weight category significantthe effects child overweight obesity healthrelated qol communitybased sample significant smaller clinical sample using measure