Research on the physical development of young adolescence in Indonesia

2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 13571041
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: 体育学
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURA Yasuhide Osaka University Graduate School of Human Sciences, Professor, 人間科学研究科, 教授 (60260486)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): WATANABE Yoko Hamamatsu Medical Univ. Faculty of Nursing, Lecturer, 看護学部, 非常勤講師
• Project Period (FY): 2001 – 2002
• Keywords: Adolescence / Development / Indonesia / Growth Curve / Physiology / Cohort Survey

Research Abstract

Continuous contact with the respondents and periodic evaluation of parameter being studied is mandatory for the sustaining a study cohort. In the Tanjungsari cohort where the respondent is a child now becoming teenagers, Birthdays axe routinely used as the tune point to contact and examined the respondent. This method has been used effectively for 12 years since the beginning of the cohort. In this report, the result of survey at 12 years old is reported in detail. House visit was conducted by trained village health worker (VHW) who have follow-up the children from early pregnancy through delivery there are 27 VHW everyone is responsible for cohort children living in their area. The results of this survey shows that die stunting is dominant in -Indonesian 12-year -old children and The results of the cohort survey might become a standard of school children in Indonesia.