Journal article
Time-Use Patterns and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adolescents
Monica Wong, Tim Olds, Lisa Gold, Kate Lycett, Dorothea Dumuid, Josh Muller, Fiona K Mensah, David Burgner, John B Carlin, Ben Edwards, Terence Dwyer, Peter Azzopardi, Melissa Wake
PEDIATRICS | AMER ACAD PEDIATRICS | Published : 2017
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To describe 24-hour time-use patterns and their association with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in early adolescence. METHODS: The Child Health CheckPoint was a cross-sectional study nested between Waves 6 and 7 of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. The participants were 1455 11- to 12-year-olds (39% of Wave 6; 51% boys). The exposure was 24-hour time use measured across 259 activities using the Multimedia Activity Recall for Children and Adolescents. "Average" days were generated from 1 school and 1 nonschool day. Time-use clusters were derived from cluster analysis with compositional inputs. The outcomes were self-reported HRQoL (Physical and Psychosocial He..
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Awarded by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
Awarded by Royal Children's Hospital Foundation
Awarded by National Heart Foundation of Australia
Awarded by Financial Markets Foundation for Children
Funding Acknowledgements
The Child Health CheckPoint study was supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (1041352, 1109355), the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation (2014-241), Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The University of Melbourne, National Heart Foundation of Australia (100660), Financial Markets Foundation for Children (2014-055), and Victorian Deaf Education Institute. Research at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute is supported by the Victorian government's Operational Infrastructure Program. The funding bodies did not play any role in the study.