Patients' beliefs as predictors of patient satisfaction and health-related quality of life in pediatric rehabilitation.

Objective: This study investigated the predictive value of illness and treatment beliefs for patient satisfaction and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adolescents receiving inpatient rehabilitation treatment. In addition, we examined the relationship between fulfilled rehabilitation-related treatment expectations and patient satisfaction.

Method: In this longitudinal study (recruitment between April 2019 and March 2020), 170 participants ( = 14.

Treatment Beliefs of Children and Adolescents With Chronic Diseases: Development of the Rehabilitation Treatment Beliefs Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents.

Objective: Rehabilitation is an important component in the health care of children and adolescents with chronic diseases and aims at supporting patients' self-regulation for dealing with the disease. Patients' beliefs about illness and treatment are core elements in the self-regulation process. While questionnaires measuring illness beliefs for children and adolescents exist, questionnaires about their rehabilitation-related treatment beliefs are lacking.

Rehabilitation-related treatment beliefs in adolescents: A qualitative study.

Background: Medical rehabilitation plays an important role in the health care of chronically ill children and adolescents. During medical rehabilitation, supporting illness-related self-regulation is a central goal. Beliefs about illness and beliefs about treatment are core elements of patients' self-regulation, and there is evidence that these beliefs are relevant predictors of different health- and treatment-related outcomes such as adherence.

Contextual factors of self-regulation in children and adolescents with chronic diseases - a qualitative analysis.

Background: In recent decades, the prevalence of chronic diseases in children and adolescents has increased significantly. Contextual factors play a central role in the self-regulation of chronic diseases. They influence illness and treatment representations, disease management, and health outcomes.

Obesity in patients with craniopharyngioma: assessment of food intake and movement counts indicating physical activity.

Patients with childhood-onset craniopharyngioma (CP) often suffer from obesity. We evaluated two important etiological factors of obesity development, energy intake and physical activity. Energy intake was supposed to be high due to a disturbed hypothalamic regulation of appetite.