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Table 3 The relative development for the 6 VAS scoresa for all participants, gender and weight development

From: The association between weight loss and long term development in quality-of-life among children living with obesity: a pragmatic descriptive intervention study

 

Overall

Gender

Weight development

All

p-values*

Boys

Girls

p-values

Loss

Stag

Gain

p-values

N

120

 

56

64

 

81

19

20

 

∆VAS1, Joy of living

0.37 (2.12)

0.51 *

-0.04 (2.10)

0.73 (2.08)

0.048

0.63 (1.98)

-0.01 (2.39)

-0.31 (2.26)

0.14

∆VAS2, Quality of life

0.22 (2.40)

0.60 *

0.32 (2.61)

0.13 (2.22)

0.67

0.65 (2.49)

-0.36 (1.55)

-0.96 (2.27)

0.01

∆VAS3, Appetite

-0.46 (3.06)

0.14 *

-0.98 (3.22)

-0.01 (2.86)

0.08

-0.45 (3.10)

-0.17 (2.89)

-0.78 (3.14)

0.82

∆VAS4, Bullying

-1.40 (3.18)

 < 0.001 *

-1.23 (3.30)

-1.56 (3.10)

0.57

-1.69 (3.16)

-0.93 (3.75)

-0.67 (2.66)

0.34

∆VAS5, Motivation

-0.78 (2.90)

0.002 *

-1.02 (2.93)

-0.57 (2.87)

0.40

-0.63 (2.90)

-1.41 (2.36)

-0.81 (3.37)

0.58

∆VAS6, Body perception

0.69 (3.69)

0.27 *

0.29 (3.66)

1.03 (3.71)

0.28

1.14 (3.45)

0.49 (3.82)

-0.96 (4.17)

0.07

  1. The last category is sub grouped in weight loss (< -0.1 ∆BMI-SDS), weight stagnation (-0.1 to 0.1 ∆BMI-SDS) and weight gain (> 0.1 ∆BMI-SDS)Ұ. P-values refer to comparisons between the variables in each group (respectively gender and weight development). All data is reported as mean value with standard deviations (SD)
  2. Ұ∆BMI-SDS was calculated as the difference between BMI-SDS at baseline and BMI-SDS at the latest obtained VAS
  3. aThe relative development for VAS (∆VAS) was calculated as the difference between baseline and at the latest obtained VAS
  4. *These p-values refer to comparison between the baseline VAS (Table1) and the last VAS obtained (not shown)