Study of improvement effect for the lifestyle of young children using s-IgA and body temperature analysis

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23601018
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Children studies (Studies of environment on children)
• Research Institution: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: MIYAKE Takaaki 大阪府立大学, 地域連携研究機構, 准教授 (80244672)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MATSUURA Yoshimasa 大阪府立大学, 地域連携研究機構, 准教授 (60173796) ; TSUBOUCHI Shinji 大阪府立大学, 高等教育推進機構, 准教授 (10188617) ; TANAKA Yoshiharu 大阪府立大学, 高等教育推進機構, 准教授 (60236651) ; SHIMIZU Norinaga 大阪府立大学, 地域連携研究機構, 教授 (30079123)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 幼児 / s-IgA / 生活リズム / 早寝早起き / 介入 / 健康

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to examine how young children’s s-IgA (secretory-Immunoglobulin A) and body temperature change by improving their lifestyle through setting of early wake-up and bedtime.
We asked parents to improve target child’s lifestyle by making them wake-up and go to bed early.　As a result, young children who improved their lifestyle had higher s-IgA at wake-up time than before the improvement.　Also, those young children had significantly higher daily average of s-IgA than before improving their lifestyle.　Therefore, these results suggest that improving young children lifestyle by setting early wake-up and bedtime is effective for the immunity of young children.　Because the body temperature of target children were within the normal range before improvement, the body temperature did not change.

Free Research Field

健康教育学