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Instruments for Health Surveys in Children and Adolescents (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Instruments for Health Surveys in Children and Adolescents (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health
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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.
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