New data for action. Data collection for KiGGS Wave 2 has been completed

Abstract

The fieldwork of the second follow-up to the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) was completed in August 2017. KiGGS is part of the Robert Koch Institute’s Federal Health Monitoring. The study consists of the KiGGS cross-sectional component (a nationally representative, periodic cross-sectional survey of children and adolescents aged between 0 and 17) and the KiGGS cohort (the follow-up into adulthood of participants who took part in the KiGGS baseline study). KiGGS collects data on health status, health-related behaviour, psychosocial risk and protective factors, health care and the living conditions of children and adolescents in Germany. The first interview and examination survey (the KiGGS baseline study; undertaken between 2003 and 2006; n=17,641; age range: 0-17) was carried out in a total of 167 sample points in Germany. Physical examinations, laboratory analyses of blood and urine samples and various physical tests were conducted with the participants and, in addition, all parents and participants aged 11 or above were interviewed. The first follow-up was conducted via telephone-based interviews (KiGGS Wave 1 2009-2012; n=11,992; age range: 6-24) and an additional sample was included (n=4,455; age range: 0-6). KiGGS Wave 2 (2014-2017) was conducted as an interview and examination survey and consisted of a new, nationwide, representative cross-sectional sample of 0- to 17-year-old children and adolescents in Germany, and the second KiGGS cohort follow-up. The completion of the cross-sectional component of KiGGS Wave 2 means that the health of children and adolescents in Germany can now be assessed using representative data gained from three study waves. Trends can therefore be analysed over a period stretching to over ten years now. As the data collected from participants of the KiGGS cohort can be individually linked across the various surveys, in-depth analyses can be conducted for a period ranging from childhood to young adulthood and developmental processes associated with physical and mental health and the associated risk and protective factors can be explored. As such, KiGGS Wave 2 expands the resources available to health reporting, as well as policy planning and research, with regard to assessing the health of children and adolescents in Germany.

Lysmeral Exposure in Children and Adolescences Participating in the German Environmental Survey (2012–2015): Integrating Sex/Gender into Analysis

“…The GerES V population is a stratified random subsample of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS Wave 2) of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) [ 29 ]. From January 2015 to June 2017, a sample was recruited as representative of their age and sex based on population registry data in a random two-stage sampling procedure.…”

“…Briefly, RKI recruited a population representative sample in 167 locations in Germany reflecting the grade of urbanization and geographical distribution which are considered representative of the whole of Germany. Out of these, the 3–17 years old random subsamples were drawn [ 29 ]. The study population characteristic is described by Schulz et al [ 30 ].…”

A novel concept of screening for subgrouping factors for the association between socioeconomic status and respiratory allergies

“…The KiGGS wave two studies comprised a nationwide, representative cross-sectional sample of children the age of 0–17 years from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) [ 24 ]. A comprehensive overview of data architecture, collection, and management has been published [ 25 ]. Of the 15,023 children in the KiGGS Wave 2 data set, 4686 children were available for the analysis.…”

“…In the KiGGS survey, weighting variables were calculated to compensate for imbalances in certain variables with respect to the general German population of children and adolescents [ 25 ]. Since it is not the aim of the present analysis to estimate a population prevalence and because the sampling design is assumed to be non-informative, i.e., survey selection probabilities are not correlated with the outcome of factors [ 26 ], the weights were not used in our analyses.…”

A Lot of Warmth and a Bit of Control? How Parenting Mediates the Relationship Between Parental Personality and Their Children’s Mental Health Problems

“…KiGGS Wave 2 used a nationally representative probability sample of 15,023 children and adolescents (49.8% male) aged 0-17 years. A detailed description of the survey methodology can be found in Mauz et al (2017) and Lange et al (2018). In brief, one parent (82.5% mothers) of the recruited children and adolescents provided information on a wide spectrum of health-relevant topics.…”