TY  - JOUR
A1  - Czernitzki, Anna-Franziska
A1  - Pospisil, Christina
A1  - Musalek, Martin
A1  - Mumm, Rebekka
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Analysis of longitudinal data of height z-scores in kindergarten children
BT  - a pilot study
JF  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
N2  - Changes in body height throughout extended historic periods are very complex and dynamic processes. Thispilot study aimed to investigate the pattern of longitudinal height z-scores changes in children before and after entering kindergarten. In summer 2016, we measured height and weight of 32 children from 4 groups of two kindergartens aged 3–6 years. All ages were centered according to the age of entry into the kindergarten. For each child we determined mean z-scores for height before and after entering the kindergarten, and assessed the variances for each kindergarten group. Twenty-two children targeted in height z-scores towards average height of their respective kindergarten group, 10 children did not. Due to the small numbers, the convergence in height variance however, remained insignificant (chi-squared independence test, p = 0.127). Additional studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm this pilot study.
KW  - Height z-score
KW  - kindergarten children
KW  - secular trend
KW  - strategic growth adjustment
KW  - social signal
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2017/0708
SN  - 0003-5548
VL  - 74
IS  - 2
SP  - 109
EP  - 112
PB  - Schweizerbart science publishers
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  -