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Associations between Trust of Healthcare Provider and Body Mass Index in Adolescents.
- Source :
- Comprehensive Child & Adolescent Nursing; Sep2021, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p197-208, 12p, 2 Charts, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Adolescent obesity continues to be a serious concern around the world, placing young people at risk for chronic conditions and early death. Research has shown that social relationships are important in making health behavior changes, such as following health-care recommendations for eating and physical activity. Specifically, the trust of health-care providers has been shown to be important in making health behavior change. Evidence suggests that obese young adults are less trusting of health-care providers than their healthy weight peers, but it is not known if this also applies to obese adolescents. The purpose of this secondary analysis study was to determine relationships between the trust of health-care providers and body mass index percentile in adolescents. Participants were 224 adolescents aged 14–19 years attending a public high school in the Midwestern United States. The Wake Forest Physician Trust scale measured the trust of health-care providers. Height and weight were collected at a school screening; body mass index percentile categories were determined according to age- and sex-adjusted body mass index percentiles. One-way analysis of variance and post hoc Tukey tests showed trust scores varied significantly between body mass index percentile categories of girls. Results suggest it may be necessary for health-care providers to make additional efforts to build trust with obese adolescent girls than with other groups of adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SCHOOL environment
STATURE
STATISTICS
BODY weight
CHILDHOOD obesity
ONE-way analysis of variance
EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
SELF-evaluation
SEX distribution
RESEARCH funding
HEALTH behavior
QUESTIONNAIRES
HEALTH attitudes
PATIENT-professional relations
BODY mass index
STATISTICAL correlation
DATA analysis software
DATA analysis
TRUST
SECONDARY analysis
HIGH school students
ADOLESCENCE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 24694193
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Comprehensive Child & Adolescent Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 152205980
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/24694193.2020.1783028