Assessment of the quality of life of adolescents in Altai krai

This article presents the results of the assessment of the quality of life of adolescents, aged fifteen to seventeen years, and the results of the assessment of the quality of life of adolescents by their parents, as revealed by the PedsQL-4.0 questionnaire for adolescents aged 13-18 years and their parents. The participants in this study were 126 adolescents, 63 girls and 63 boys, and 126 parents, respectively. The mean age of the adolescents questioned was 15.7+-0.72 years. There were 6 blocks in this questionnaire - physical functioning, emotional functioning, social functioning, school life, psychosocial health and a summative score which is represented by the average of the responses for all four blocks. The results obtained are presented as mean value with confidence interval (CI) -95%. The Shapiro-Wilk test tested the hypothesis of normality of the distribution of empirical data. This test evaluates the sample data with the null hypothesis that the data set is normally distributed. A value of p>0.05 indicated that the data set is normally distributed, a value of p<0.05 indicated that the data set is subject to non-normal distribution of the trait. The Mann-Whitney U-test was used to determine whether there was a significant difference between two independent non-normally distributed groups of data. Differences were considered statistically significant at a significance level of p < 0.05. In the final results of the self-assessed quality of life, the lowest scores were obtained on the “emotional functioning” and “life at school” scales, the highest on the “physical functioning” and “social functioning” scales, with significant low scores for girls on all scales except the “social functioning” scale, the trend of low scores was maintained when assessed by their parents. When analyzing the indicators of quality of life assessment by parents of adolescents of different ages, a statistically significant difference was found only on the “emotional functioning” scale. Keywords: quality of life, adolescents