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Do Parents and Overweight, Treatment-Seeking Youth Provide Similar Ratings of Youths’ Psychosocial Functioning and Fatigue?

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Patterns of agreement between parent and child ratings of psychosocial functioning and fatigue in children with obesity were examined. Analyses demonstrated moderate agreement for social anxiety in elementary children and small agreement for social anxiety in adolescents. Results of analyses of overall quality of life revealed small agreement in children under the age of 8, large agreement in children ages 8–12, and moderate agreement in adolescents ages 13–18. Overall ratings of fatigue demonstrated moderate agreement both in elementary children and in adolescents. A meaningful relationship was found between each factor measured by a parent and a child. Patterns which were unexpected given the existing literature were found; possible hypotheses explaining these patterns are presented; and the need for further research is highlighted.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Jennifer Harman Ehrentraut, Eileen Chaves, Xingu Tang & Wendy L. Ward

  2. Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Julia Thompson

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, 1 Children’s Way, Slot 512-21, 72202-3591, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Jennifer Harman Ehrentraut, Eileen Chaves, Xingu Tang & Wendy L. Ward

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from and for all participants for being included in this study.

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Ehrentraut, J.H., Chaves, E., Tang, X. et al. Do Parents and Overweight, Treatment-Seeking Youth Provide Similar Ratings of Youths’ Psychosocial Functioning and Fatigue?. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 23, 247–256 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-016-9458-7

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