Instruments for Health Surveys in Children and Adolescents /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Bammann, Karin (Editor), Lissner, Lauren (Editor), Pigeot, Iris (Editor), Ahrens, Wolfgang (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Series:	Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health,
Subjects:	Statistics . Epidemiology. Health promotion. Clinical nutrition. Health psychology. Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Clinical Nutrition. Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. Health Psychology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

0 Preface
1 The IDEFICS/I.Family studies: design and methods of a large European child cohort
2 MODYS - a modular control and documentation system for epidemiological studies
3 Physical examinations
4 Biological samples - Standard Operating Procedures for collection, shipment, storage and documentation
5 Web-based 24-Hour Dietary Recall: the SACANA program
6 Dietary behaviour in children, adolescents and families: the Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ)
7 Accelerometry-based physical activity assessment for children and adolescents
8 Pre- and post-natal factors obtained from health records
9 Core questionnaires
10 Instruments for assessing the role of commercials on children's food choices
11 Process evaluation of the IDEFICS intervention
12 Assessment of sensory taste perception in children
13 Physical fitness
14 Interview on kinship and household.