RESEARCH PAPER
Quality of life, health, eating habits and physical development of middle school adolescents in the Świetokrzyskie
1
Collegium Medicum, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
2
College of Rehabilitation, Warsaw, Poland
3
Department of Medical Anthropology, Institute of Rural Health, Lublin, Poland
Corresponding author
Ann Agric Environ Med. 2021;28(4):659-666
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ABSTRACT
Introduction and objective:
Measurement of the health-related quality of life is currently one of the significant methods of self-evaluation of heath, enabling the detection of disorders in the biopsychosocial functioning of children and adolescents. The aim of the study was to establish significant relationships between the subjective sense of the health-related quality of life, eating habits and objective parameters of physical development among a group of adolescents.
Material and methods:
The study applied a diagnostic survey methodology with the use of the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) questionnaire, anthropometric measures of choice, and a self-constructed questionnaire. The significance level was set at p<0.05. The collected data was gathered and analyzed using Statistica 10.0 PL.
Results:
Three distinct groups of adolescents with a varying subjective sense of the quality of life were identified. The frequency of basic meal consumption among participants showed some abnormalities. This concerned breakfast in particular, which was consumed before going to school by over half of the participants (63.61%), with boys (70.07%) eating it significantly more frequently than girls (57.83%). Indices based on weight-to-height ratios, such as: BMI, Rohrer’s Index and Slender Index were significantly greater in value among boys compared with girls.
Conclusions:
Adolescents from the Świętokrzyskie region, for the most part exhibited a high subjective sense of the quality of life. The physical development of the participants, as far as basic anthropometric characteristics are concerned, was mostly appropriate and consistent with a high subjective sense of the quality of life and exhibited eating habits.
Measurement of the health-related quality of life is currently one of the significant methods of self-evaluation of heath, enabling the detection of disorders in the biopsychosocial functioning of children and adolescents. The aim of the study was to establish significant relationships between the subjective sense of the health-related quality of life, eating habits and objective parameters of physical development among a group of adolescents.
Material and methods:
The study applied a diagnostic survey methodology with the use of the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) questionnaire, anthropometric measures of choice, and a self-constructed questionnaire. The significance level was set at p<0.05. The collected data was gathered and analyzed using Statistica 10.0 PL.
Results:
Three distinct groups of adolescents with a varying subjective sense of the quality of life were identified. The frequency of basic meal consumption among participants showed some abnormalities. This concerned breakfast in particular, which was consumed before going to school by over half of the participants (63.61%), with boys (70.07%) eating it significantly more frequently than girls (57.83%). Indices based on weight-to-height ratios, such as: BMI, Rohrer’s Index and Slender Index were significantly greater in value among boys compared with girls.
Conclusions:
Adolescents from the Świętokrzyskie region, for the most part exhibited a high subjective sense of the quality of life. The physical development of the participants, as far as basic anthropometric characteristics are concerned, was mostly appropriate and consistent with a high subjective sense of the quality of life and exhibited eating habits.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Project financed under the program of the Minister of
Science and Higher Education called “Regional Initiative
of Excellence” in the years 2019-2022, project no. 024/
RID/2018/19, amount of financing 11 999 000,00 zł.
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