Instruments For Health Surveys In Children And Adolescents (springer Series On Epidemiology And Public Health)

This book describes key methods and instruments for assessing diet-related factors, physical activity, social and environmental factors, physical characteristics and health-related outcomes in children and adolescents. These tools were developed and deployed within the framework of the pan-European IDEFICS and I.Family cohort studies. These population-based field studies were funded within the 6th and 7th European Framework Programme, respectively, and were intended to assess the prevalence and aetiology of lifestyle-related diseases in children, focusing on overweight and obesity, and to develop effective strategies for primary prevention. In the course of a decade we undertook a major research endeavour, collecting standardised data from children, families, neighbourhoods, kindergartens, pre-schools and schools in eight European countries, employing a uniform cross-cultural methodology. This resulted in a rich picture of the daily lives and living contexts of children and their families. Studies encompassing childhood and adolescence face the particular challenge of the transitions from pre-school to primary school and from childhood to adolescence; accordingly, the instruments used need to be adapted to different developmental stages while maintaining their comparability across the age range. In young children, questionnaires have to be completed by proxies, usually their parents, while older children, particularly adolescents, can provide a major part of the requested information themselves. This book presents suitable designs, methods and instruments for data collection in studies of children and adolescents. Each chapter explains the development and background of the instruments applied in the surveys and summarises the current state of knowledge. All chapters were written by key experts in their respective research fields. We are grateful for their valuable contributions and their enthusiastic support in producing this book, which also presents survey experiences in which practice does not always follow theory. Participants’ responses can on occasion be unexpected and unpredictable, but meeting these challenges can also enrich epidemiological surveys and yield methodological refinements. We sincerely hope that the book and the online material will be of considerable value to other research teams. This book describes key methods and instruments for assessing diet-related factors, physical activity, social and environmental factors, physical characteristics and health-related outcomes in children and adolescents. These tools were developed and deployed within the framework of the pan-European IDEFICS and I. Family cohort studies. These population-based field studies were funded within the 6th and 7th European Framework Programme, respectively, and were intended to assess the prevalence and aetiology of lifestyle-related diseases in children, focusing on overweight and obesity, and to develop effective strategies for primary prevention. In the course of a decade we undertook a major research endeavour, collecting standardised data from children, families, neighbourhoods, kindergartens, pre-schools and schools in eight European countries, employing a uniform cross-cultural methodology. This resulted in a rich picture of the daily lives and living contexts of children and their families. Studies encompassing childhood and adolescence face the particular challenge of the transitions from pre-school to primary school and from childhood to adolescence; accordingly, the instruments used need to be adapted to different developmental stages while maintaining their comparability across the age range. In young children, questionnaires have to be completed by proxies, usually their parents, while older children, particularly adolescents, can provide a major part of the requested information themselves. This book presents suitable designs, methods and instruments for data collection in studies of children and adolescents. Each chapter explains the development and background of the instruments applied in the surveys and summarises the current state of knowledge. All chapters were written by key experts in their respective research fields. We are grateful for their valuable contributions and their enthusiastic support in producing this book, which also presents survey experiences in which practice does not always follow theory. Participants? responses can on occasion be unexpected and unpredictable, but meeting these challenges can also enrich epidemiological surveys and yield methodological refinements. We sincerely hope that the book and the online material will be of considerable value to other research teams Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi The IDEFICS/I.Family Studies: Design and Methods of a Large European Child Cohort (Wolfgang Ahrens, Karin Bammann, Iris Pigeot)....Pages 1-24 MODYS—A Modular Control and Documentation System for Epidemiological Studies (Achim Reineke, Iris Pigeot, Wolfgang Ahrens, Stefan Rach)....Pages 25-45 Physical Examinations (Karin Bammann, Jenny Peplies, Staffan Mårild, Dénes Molnár, Marc Suling, Alfonso Siani)....Pages 47-55 Biological Samples—Standard Operating Procedures for Collection, Shipment, Storage and Documentation (Jenny Peplies, Kathrin Günther, Andrea Gottlieb, Annette Lübke, Karin Bammann, Wolfgang Ahrens)....Pages 57-76 Web-Based 24-h Dietary Recall: The SACANA Program (Antje Hebestreit, Maike Wolters, Hannah Jilani, Gabriele Eiben, Valeria Pala)....Pages 77-102 Dietary Behaviour in Children, Adolescents and Families: The Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ) (Valeria Pala, Lucia A. Reisch, Lauren Lissner)....Pages 103-133 Accelerometry-Based Physical Activity Assessment for Children and Adolescents (Kenn Konstabel, Swati Chopra, Robert Ojiambo, Borja Muñiz-Pardos, Yannis Pitsiladis)....Pages 135-173 Pre- and Postnatal Factors Obtained from Health Records (Wolfgang Ahrens, Fabio Lauria, Annarita Formisano, Luis A. Moreno, Iris Pigeot)....Pages 175-188 Core Questionnaires (Karin Bammann, Lucia A. Reisch, Hermann Pohlabeln, Garrath Williams, Maike Wolters)....Pages 189-207 Instruments for Assessing the Role of Commercials on Children’s Food Choices (Wencke Gwozdz, Lucia A. Reisch)....Pages 209-230 Process Evaluation of the IDEFICS Intervention (Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Vera Verbestel, Lea Maes, Annunziata Nappo, Charis Chadjigeorgiou, Dénes Molnár et al.)....Pages 231-255 Assessment of Sensory Taste Perception in Children (Hannah Jilani, Jenny Peplies, Kirsten Buchecker)....Pages 257-275 Physical Fitness (Mirko Brandes, Germán Vicente-Rodríguez, Marc Suling, Yannis Pitsiladis, Karin Bammann)....Pages 277-289 Interview on Kinship and Household (Leonie-Helen Bogl, Jaakko Kaprio, Claudia Brünings-Kuppe, Lauren Lissner, Wolfgang Ahrens)....Pages 291-301 Die zunehmende Spezialisierung in vielen Bereichen der Medizin während der letzten Jahrzehnte hat das Berufsbild unserer Kran­ kenschwestern und Pfleger nicht unberührt gelassen. 15 5.3.1 Katheterismus bei Mädchen und Frauen 15 5.3.2 Katheterismus bei Knaben und Männern 15 5.4 Die suprapubische Blasenpunktion .