Quality of life, health perception, learning motivation and behavior of adolescents in an educational institution.
Graziela Nunes Alfenas Fernandes, Stela Maris Aguiar Lemos
PMID 39476134WHAT IT FOUND
In 68 adolescents surveyed twice, self-perceived health did not change significantly, although parent-rated social and psychosocial quality of life scores were higher in 2021.
Key findings
01Self-perceived health rated good or excellent fell from 91.2% in 2018 to 80.9% in 2021, but the change was not statistically significant (p=0.118).
02In parents' reports, social and psychosocial quality of life scores were significantly higher in 2021 than in 2018 (p=0.003 and p=0.039).
03A normal SDQ result increased the chances of parent-rated good/excellent quality of life by 5.37 times in 2018 and 5.51 times in 2021.
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What it does not show
The study was done in one privately funded Brazilian school, and 58.8% of adolescents were economic class A, so it may not apply to lower-income or public school students. Only 68 of the original 124 adolescents completed the 2021 survey, so the later results may not represent the original group. The design was observational and cross-sectional, so it cannot show that pandemic remote schooling caused changes in health, quality of life, motivation or behaviour. Some adolescent quality of life differences were reported as significant without stating the direction of each change in the Results section. Many outcomes and associations were examined, so individual findings may be unstable.
Declared interests
The study was financed in part by CAPES (Finance Code 001, Brazil). No other conflict-of-interest statement is provided.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that emergency remote education caused poorer adolescent health or quality of life. The study observed two time points in one private school, self-perceived health did not change significantly, and associations with SDQ scores do not prove cause.