Health-related quality of life for children and adolescents living in a temporary home, Colombia

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Dayana Marcela Heredia-Bolaños
Hugo Grisales-Romero

Abstract

This is a cross-sectional study that had the objective of determining the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for 92 children and adolescents between 8 and 18 years of age who lived in a temporary home in a Colombian municipality. Tests were applied for the correlation of the difference of averages and a logical model was developed to identify the factors that were associated with the HRQoL outcome. No differences were found between the averages of the HRQoL scores according to sex (p = 0.094). The aspects of physical activity and health, feelings, self-perception, autonomy, family life, relationships with peers and school environment were higher than the average HRQoL. Being a woman and having suffered some type of limitation caused participants to have HRQoL scores below 70 points.

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Heredia-Bolaños, D. M., & Grisales-Romero, H. (2019). Health-related quality of life for children and adolescents living in a temporary home, Colombia. Revista Latinoamericana De Ciencias Sociales, Niñez Y Juventud, 17(2), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.11600/1692715x.17205
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Segunda Sección: Estudios e Investigaciones
Author Biographies

Dayana Marcela Heredia-Bolaños, Gerente de Sistemas de información en Salud, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

Gerente de Sistemas de información en Salud de la Universidad de Antioquia. Orcid: 0000-0001-8346-6161.

Hugo Grisales-Romero, University of Antioquia

PhD in Epidemiology, Master in Epidemiology, Specialist in Statistics, Mathematics. Professor of the University of Antioquia