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Table 2 Descriptive scores of depression, anxiety, binge eating, body image dissatisfaction, and quality of life in obese adolescents submitted to a multidisciplinary long-term lifestyle therapy.

From: Quality of life in Brazilian obese adolescents: effects of a long-term multidisciplinary lifestyle therapy

Variable

Girls

Boys

  

Baseline

Short-term

Long-term

Baseline

Short-term

Long-term

BDI

16.80 ± 7.61

15.41 ± 8.39

11.63 ± 5.19a

15.16 ± 8.32

13.04 ± 6.21

12.95 ± 8.31

STAI State

42.07 ± 9.01

43.00 ± 9.98

38.91 ± 11.13

39.96 ± 8.87

39.08 ± 11.62

35.60 ± 9.02a

BSQ

116.46 ± 34.23

112.80 ± 29.90

104.79 ± 28.14a

92.24 ± 32.39c

79.60 ± 25.73ac

77.84 ± 31.23ac

BES

15.53 ± 7.39

13.00 ± 8.08

10.25 ± 5.27a

14.60 ± 9.16

10.34 ± 9.30

7.45 ± 6.82a

SF-36

Physical Functioning

79.87 ± 16.33

83.05 ± 17.24

86.87 ± 9.30a

79.60 ± 18.42

89.34 ± 15.17a

93.50 ± 11.59ac

 

Role Physical

76.21 ± 28.47

70.83 ± 34.06

77.08 ± 32.90

67.00 ± 33.63

80.43 ± 21.26a

78.75 ± 30.64a

 

Pain

64.75 ± 15.78

71.80 ± 21.35

69.00 ± 19.86

73.64 ± 22.16

75.52 ± 20.14

83.85 ± 15.79ac

 

General Health Perception

58.90 ± 19.71

64.13 ± 17.90

70.20 ± 17.54a

65.04 ± 16.14

71.95 ± 14.24

74.80 ± 21.72

 

Vitality

61.82 ± 17.49

64.72 ± 18.93

70.62 ± 14.01

67.20 ± 19.20

70.86 ± 16.83

77.25 ± 17.50a

 

Social Functioning

78.65 ± 19.81

78.81 ± 20.22

76.56 ± 24.53

79.00 ± 21.56

76.36 ± 20.74

80.62 ± 22.75

 

Role Emotional

75.60 ± 30.75

67.58 ± 31.35

76.38 ± 33.30

62.66 ± 44.43

76.80 ± 21.16a

74.37 ± 35.31a

 

Mental Health

69.75 ± 19.35

68.00 ± 21.42

74.66 ± 17.48

78.24 ± 13.27

77.91 ± 16.39

80.93 ± 16.51

 

Mean of dimensions

70.70 ± 12.06

71.11 ± 15.41

75.00 ± 15.67

71.54 ± 17.20

77.43 ± 10.55

80.40 ± 14.09a

  1. ANOVA for repeated measurements followed by Tukey post-hoc test, p ≤ 0.05. a vs baseline; b vs short-term; c vs girls. Legend: BDI = Beck Depression Inventory; STAI (Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory); BSQ = Body Shape Questionnaire; BES = Binge Eating Scale; SF-36 – Generic Questionnaire for Evaluation of Quality of Life;