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Instruments for Health Surveys in Children and Adolescents (Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health),Used
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This book describes key methods and instruments for assessing dietrelated factors, physical activity, social and environmental factors, physical characteristics and healthrelated outcomes in children and adolescents. These tools were developed and deployed within the framework of the panEuropean IDEFICS and I.Family cohort studies. These populationbased field studies were funded within the 6th and 7th European Framework Programme, respectively, and were intended to assess the prevalence and aetiology of lifestylerelated 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, preschools and schools in eight European countries, employing a uniform crosscultural 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 preschool 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.
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