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.

[Childhood craniopharyngioma with hypothalamic obesity - no long-term weight reduction due to rehabilitation programs].

Background: Severe obesity due to hypothalamic involvement has major impact on prognosis in long-term survivors of childhood craniopharyngioma. The long-term effects of rehabilitation efforts on weight development and obesity in these patients are not analyzed up to now.

Patients And Methods: 108 patients with childhood craniopharyngioma recruited in HIT Endo before 2001 were included in the study.

Ethnicity and cardiovascular risk factors: evaluation of 40,921 normal-weight, overweight or obese children and adolescents living in Central Europe.

Background And Aims: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major global health problem and the leading cause of death in Europe. Risk factors such as obesity and hypertension that accelerate the development of CVD begin in childhood. Ethnicity is a known risk factor for CVD in adults.

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.

Association of foveomacular retinitis, ankylosing spondylitis, iritis, and acquired iris atrophy.

A case of foveomacular retinitis, ankylosing spondylitis, iritis, and iris dissociation is described. Only ankylosing spondylitis was present in other family members. The differential diagnosis is discussed.