Table III.
Observed and self-report changes over treatment.
| n=130 | Pre-treatment
|
Post-treatment
|
Effect size Cohen’s d | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | ||
| BMI | |||||
| Females | 32.8 | (5.7) | 30.3 | (5.3)★ | 0.45 |
| Males | 34.5 | (6.4) | 30.9 | (5.3)★ | 0.61 |
| All subjects | 33.5 | (5.9) | 30.6 | (5.3)★ | 0.52 |
| zBMI all subjects | 2.2 | (0.4) | 2.0 | (0.4)★ | 0.57 |
| Anti-fat attitudes | 33.1 | (3.8) | 31.8 | (3.4)★ | 0.36 |
| Valuing of appearance | 3.5 | (1.7) | 2.8 | (1.8)★ | 0.40 |
| Body esteem | 6.9 | (4.8) | 9.6 | (5.3)★ | 0.53 |
| Self-esteem | 29.6 | (5.8) | 32.1 | (5.0)★ | 0.46 |
| Weight/eating efficacy | 109.5 | (36.1) | 121.4 | (35.0)★ | 0.33 |
| Depressive symptoms | 35.9 | (10.6) | 34.6 | (9.5) | |
| IWQOL-Kids n=90 | |||||
| Physical comfort | 75.1 | (26.4) | 85.9 | (17.3)★ | 0.48 |
| Body esteem | 54.7 | (28.6) | 71.5 | (25.1)★ | 0.62 |
| Social life | 65.8 | (29.5) | 79.6 | (23.7)★ | 0.51 |
| Family relationships | 83.2 | (26.8) | 90.8 | (19.2) | |
| Total | 67.9 | (24.0) | 79.8 | (20.2)★ | 0.53 |
| PedsQL n=90 | |||||
| Physical | 71.9 | (16.6) | 79.6 | (18.0)★ | 0.44 |
| Emotional | 59.9 | (23.3) | 72.4 | (23.0)★ | 0.54 |
| Social | 67.3 | (26.3) | 78.2 | (21.6)★ | 0.45 |
| School | 70.0 | (21.0) | 73.6 | (22.5) | |
| Psychosocial summary | 65.5 | (19.5) | 74.6 | (17.7)★ | 0.49 |
| Total | 68.4 | (15.7) | 76.7 | (16.2)★ | 0.52 |
SD: Standard deviation; BMI: Body mass index.
★
p<0.001.