Lange Michael, Hoffmann Robert, Mauz Elvira, Houben Robin, Gößwald Antje, Rosario Angelika Schaffrath, Kurth Bärbel-Maria
Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring.
J Health Monit. 2018 Mar 15;3(1):92-107. doi: 10.17886/RKI-GBE-2018-035. eCollection 2018 Mar.
The German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) is conducted within the health monitoring framework that has been established at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). In addition to regular cross-sectional studies of the current health of children and adolescents living in Germany, KiGGS also includes a longitudinal component - the KiGGS cohort. The longitudinal data, which can be linked individually throughout the various waves of the study, enables developments in health and their associated influencing factors to be analysed during the life course. Participants from the KiGGS baseline study form the baseline of the KiGGS cohort. The baseline study was carried out between 2003 and 2006 as a nationwide interview and examination survey of children and adolescents aged between 0 and 17 years. The KiGGS cohort comprises the 17,641 participants who, after taking part in the baseline study, also agreed to participate in recurring follow-ups that are to continue through adolescence into adulthood. Until now, two follow-up studies have been conducted: KiGGS Wave 1 (2009-2012, n=11,992) and KiGGS Wave 2 (2014-2017), which, in line with the baseline study, was conducted as an interview and examination survey. A total of 10,853 repeat participants were interviewed for KiGGS Wave 2; 6,465 people also took part in an examination. As such, 61.3% of the people who originally participated in the baseline study also provided data from interviews for KiGGS Wave 2. In addition, 50.8% have provided various forms of data for all three of the survey's waves. This data pool can help answer numerous questions from the epidemiological life course discipline regarding the population living in Germany; at the time of the baseline study, these participants were children and adolescents. In order to exploit the full potential of the study for life course research and to be able to trace the health and social development of different generations in the future, the concepts on which the study is based are to be further developed, and innovative strategies for participant retention are to be drawn up.
德国儿童和青少年健康访谈与检查调查（KiGGS）是在罗伯特·科赫研究所（RKI）建立的健康监测框架内进行的。除了对生活在德国的儿童和青少年的当前健康状况进行定期横断面研究外，KiGGS还包括一个纵向部分——KiGGS队列。纵向数据在研究的各个阶段都可以单独关联，能够分析生命历程中的健康发展及其相关影响因素。KiGGS基线研究的参与者构成了KiGGS队列的基线。基线研究于2003年至2006年进行，是一项针对0至17岁儿童和青少年的全国性访谈与检查调查。KiGGS队列由17641名参与者组成，他们在参加基线研究后，还同意参与后续的定期随访，随访将持续到青春期直至成年。到目前为止，已经进行了两次随访研究：KiGGS第一轮（2009 - 2012年，n = 11992）和KiGGS第二轮（2014 - 2017年），与基线研究一样，这两轮随访也是作为访谈与检查调查进行的。共有10853名重复参与者接受了KiGGS第二轮的访谈；6465人还参加了检查。因此，最初参与基线研究的人中，有61.3%也提供了KiGGS第二轮访谈的数据。此外，50.8%的人在该调查的所有三轮中都提供了各种形式的数据。这个数据库有助于回答流行病学生命历程学科中关于德国人口的众多问题；在基线研究时，这些参与者是儿童和青少年。为了充分发挥该研究在生命历程研究中的潜力，并能够在未来追踪不同代人的健康和社会发展，需要进一步完善该研究的基础概念，并制定创新的参与者保留策略。
