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Adolescent health-related quality of life and perceived satisfaction with life

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Purpose: To explore the relationship between perceived satisfaction with life and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a state-wide sample of 13–18-year-old adolescents (n=4914) in South Carolina, USA. Methods: Questions were added to the self-report Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) asking about perceived life satisfaction in six domains (self, family, friends, living environment, school, and overall) and HRQOL (self-rated health; and the number of poor physical health days, poor mental days, and activity limitation days during the past 30 days). Results: Adjusted logistic regression analyses and multivariate models constructed separately revealed that self-rated health, poor physical days (past 30 days), poor mental health days (past 30 days), and activity limitation days (past 30 days) were significantly related (p < 0.05) to reduced life satisfaction, regardless of race or gender. Moreover, as the number of reported poor health days increased, the greater the odds of reporting life dissatisfaction. Conclusions: This is the first study to document the relationship between poor physical health and perceived life satisfaction. This adds to the mounting evidence that life satisfaction is related to a variety of adolescent health behaviors and that life satisfaction may add additional information in longitudinal databases that track adolescent health because it appears to be related to HRQOL.

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  1. Department of Physical Education, Health, and Sports, Miami University, 106 Philips Hall, Oxford, OH, 45056, USA

    Keith J. Zullig

  2. Family & Preventive Medicine, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    Robert F. Valois

  3. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    E. Scott Huebner

  4. Family & Preventive Medicine, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA

    J. Wanzer Drane

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Zullig, K.J., Valois, R.F., Huebner, E.S. et al. Adolescent health-related quality of life and perceived satisfaction with life. Qual Life Res 14, 1573–1584 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-004-7707-y

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