Health-related quality of life in overweight German children and adolescents: do treatment-seeking youth have lower quality of life levels? Comparison of a clinical sample with the general population using a multilevel model approach.

For physical well-being, male patients reported significantly lower scores than all of the general population groups, while female patients had similar scores to those of females perceived as having a ‘proper weight’ and higher scores than other girls who perceived themselves as ‘too fat’ (see Table 2 for descriptive means; the same trend was found for emotional well-being but did not reach statistical significance).

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