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National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III [NHANES III] Download as PDF

GENERAL INFORMATION

Name National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III
Acronym NHANES III
Last update 01/21/2010

Principal investigator

Clifford Johnson Director
Division of Health Examination Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Contact

Geraldine McQuillan (Ph.D. / Senior Infectious Disease Epidemiologist)
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hyattsville MD 20782
Phone: 301-458-4371
Email: gmm2@cdc.govMail

Website

Funding agency

  • US Government

BACKGROUND

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) is a program of periodic surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Examination surveys conducted since 1960 by NCHS have provided national estimates of the health and nutritional status of the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population. To add to the large amount of information collected for the purpose of describing the health of the population, DNA samples have been collected in the second phase of NHANES III and in NHANES 1999-2002.

OBJECTIVES

The NHANES are a series of cross-sectional surveys designed to provide national statistics on the health and nutritional status of the general household population through household interviews, standardized physical examinations, and the collection of biologic samples in special mobile examination centers.

METHODS

Legend Yes No Unknown

General design

Study design Cross-sectional prevalence
Type of participants Individuals
Supplementary informations Repeated surveys - Each survey is cross sectional. In 1999 the survey became a continuous survey with data release every two years. Each two year survey is a cross sectional sample of the U.S. population.
Target or final number of participants 15000
  In NHANES III DNA was collected on 7159 participants age 12 or more years. In NHANES 1999-2002 DNA was collected from 7969 consenting participants age 20 or more years.
Target or final number of DNA 12000

Participant selection / Characteristics of the population

Selection criteria

Yes Age Minimun: 12 years   
Yes Country of residence United States
Yes Other criteria Different selection criteria according to the specific survey.

Recruitment procedures

This is a complex random sample of the US population. Oversampling of race/ethnic minorities and some age groups drive the sampling, though every county in the US has a probability of selection. Once a county is selected, Census districts are randomly selected then block groups of homes. Listers go out to list all homes in the neighborhood and then households are randomly selected. These households receive a letter introducing the survey. An interviewer goes to the household and lists all persons living in the household obtaining age, gender and race/ ethnicity of each person. Then a sample person(s) is selected (on average 2 persons per household are selected but this varies by race/ethnicity).

Data Sources

  Cross-sectional Repeated/continuous
Yes Questionnaires to participants/respondents Yes No
Yes Direct physical measures Yes No
Yes Biological samples Yes No
No Medical paper
No Electronic databases
No Genealogical records  

Collection procedures

Extensive questionnaire in the home and in the examination center and medical examination including collection of biological samples. Content of the survey may vary between two year cycles.

Follow up procedures

No information available

Baseline principal variables of interest

Health information

  • Yes Diseases history - ICD-10
    • www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm
  • Yes Familial disease history
  • Yes Early life
  • Yes Women's health
  • Yes Quality of life

Physical / Biochemical measures

Yes Body structure measures Yes Biochemical measures
Yes Body function measures  

Sociodemographic Characteristics

Yes Birth location Yes Parents birth location
Yes Ethnicity/Race Yes Gender
Yes Marital status Yes Date of birth

Socioeconomic Characteristics

Yes Education level Yes Income
Yes Working status  

Life habits / Behaviours

Yes Physical activity Yes Smoking / Tobacco Use
Yes Nutrition Yes Alcohol intake

Physical environment

Yes Passive smoking No Mobile phone use

Sample management

Biological samples

Yes Blood No Buccal cells
No Cord blood No Tissues
Unknown Saliva Unknown Urine

Biological samples format

  Fresh Frozen Dried (paper) Other Specification
Blood No Yes No No
Cell lines No Yes   No

Genome-Wide Association (GWA) analyses

  • No No genome-wide association analysis

GOVERNANCE

Legend Yes No

Allow access to data or samples to external researchers

Unknown Data (questionnaire-derived, measured…)
Unknown Biological samples

STATUS

Current status

Phase Start End
Preparation phase/Pilot -- --
Recruitment / initial data collection 1991 --
Follow-up of participants -- --

Supplementary informations

DNA collected in NHANES 1991-1994 and NHANES 1999-2002
Every year 5000 individuals are examined.

Current number of participants recruited 12000 in date of 01/01/2010
Current number of collected DNA samples 7159 in date of 01/01/2010

AVAILABLE DOCUMENTS

  Document type Availability
1 General study protocol
2 Specific protocols/procedures (data collection, samples management, etc.)
3 Questionnaires
4 Physical and cognitive measures
5 DNA processing
6 Consent forms
7 Pamphlet / project description
8 Governance / ethics documentation
9 Other

General Information

Name 1. Household Composition and Selection of Sample Participants Questionnaire
Last update 09/17/2009

Contact

No information available. See study information.

Documents

Available Format

NOTICE: HTML document format may differ slightly from the actual questionnaire. Please refer to the original PDF document for exact reproduction.

General Information

Name 1. Household Composition and Selection of Sample Participants Questionnaire
Number of Question Blocks 3

Questionnaire and Question Block List

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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Language
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Residence / Current Residence
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Household Status / Structure of the Household

General Information

Name 2. Family Questionnaire
Last update 09/17/2009

Contact

No information available. See study information.

Documents

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General Information

Name 2. Family Questionnaire
Number of Question Blocks 19

Questionnaire and Question Block List

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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Language
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Residence / Current Residence
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Age/Birth Date / Subject age / birth date
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Gender
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Ethnicity/Race
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Birth location / Subject's birth location
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Education level / Subject education level
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Ethnicity/Race
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Household Status / Subjet Household Status
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Working status / Subject Working status/history
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  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the respiratory system
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Residence / Residential History
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Birth location / Subject's family's birth location
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Working status
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Residence / Residential History
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  • Physical Environment / Environmental exposures / Biological environmental exposures / Allergens
  • Physical Environment / Environmental exposures / Biological environmental exposures / Others
  • Physical Environment / Environmental exposures / Chemical environmental exposures / Others
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  • Physical Environment / Environmental exposures / Chemical environmental exposures / Passive Smoke Exposure
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Income
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Income
  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Working status
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Income

General Information

Name 3. Household Adult Questionnaire (Ages 17 + Years)
Last update 11/05/2009

Contact

No information available. See study information.

Documents

Available Format

NOTICE: HTML document format may differ slightly from the actual questionnaire. Please refer to the original PDF document for exact reproduction.

General Information

Name 3. Household Adult Questionnaire (Ages 17 + Years)
Number of Question Blocks 54

Questionnaire and Question Block List

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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Age/Birth Date / Subject age / birth date
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Gender
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Language
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Residence / Current Residence
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  • Health Information / Perception of health/quality of life
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  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Other Healthcare Interventions
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239)
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the eye and adnexa
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the respiratory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Neoplasms
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  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
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  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
  • Health Information / Familial Disease History (ICD10*) / Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the eye and adnexa
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Diagnostic Imaging Interventions / Diagnostic Imaging Interventions on the Eyes and Ocular Adnexa
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Diagnostic Interventions / Diagnostic Interventions On Body System NEC
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Diagnostic Interventions / Diagnostic Interventions on the Eyes and Ocular Adnexa
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Alimentary tract and metabolism (A)
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Diagnostic Interventions / Diagnostic Interventions on the Cardiovascular System
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Diagnostic Interventions / Diagnostic Interventions on the Cardiovascular System
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / General symptoms and signs
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving cognition, perception, emotional state and behaviour
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving speech and voice
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
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  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems
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  • Health Information / Perception of health/quality of life
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Physical activity / Perception of physical health
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the digestive system
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Digestive and Hepatobiliary Tract
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Alimentary tract and metabolism (A)
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the genitourinary system
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Genitourinary System
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the genitourinary system
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the urinary system
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  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Genitourinary System
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239)
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the respiratory system
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Nutritional Behaviours and Perception of Nutritional Habits
  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Income
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  • Body structures / Anthropometric structures / Anthropometric measures / Height
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  • Body structures / Anthropometric structures / Anthropometric measures / Weight
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Weight related behaviours
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Beverages (other than water or alcohol)
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Fat Intake
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Milk products
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Sweets, Baked goods
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Cereals, Bread, Starches
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Meat, Eggs, Fish and Alternatives
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Vegetables and Fruits
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Beverages (other than water or alcohol)
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Vegetables and Fruits
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Vegetables and Fruits
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Cereals, Bread, Starches
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Salt and Food Supplement
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Sweets, Baked goods
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  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Various
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Alcohol use
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Beverages (other than water or alcohol)
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Caffeine
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Salt and Food Supplement
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Sweets, Baked goods
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Fat Intake
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Beverages (other than water or alcohol)
  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Milk products
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the eye and adnexa
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Eyes and Ocular Adnexa
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Cognitive, Psychosocial and Sensory Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions for Hearing
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the digestive system
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Other Healthcare Interventions
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Orocraniofacial Unit
  • Health Information / Perception of health/quality of life
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Tobacco use
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Working status / Subject Working status/history
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  • Physical Environment / Occupational Exposures / Chemical Occupational Exposures / Passive Smoke Exposure
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  • Physical Environment / Occupational Exposures
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Working status / Subject Working status/history
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  • Health Information / Perception of health/quality of life
  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Working status / Subject Working status/history
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Language
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Physical activity / Activities/Exercise and Frequency
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  • Social Environment / Familial and social environment
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Religion
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Residence / Residential History
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Birth location / Subject's birth location
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Residence / Residential History
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  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Various
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Alimentary tract and metabolism (A)
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  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Various
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  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD)
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  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Alimentary tract and metabolism (A)
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  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Blood and blood forming organs (B)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Genito urinary system and sex hormones (G)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Musculo-skeletal system (M)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Alimentary tract and metabolism (A)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Cardiovascular system (C)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Dermatologicals (D)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Nervous system (N)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Respiratory system (R)

General Information

Name 4. Household Youth Questionnaire (Ages 2 Months - 16 Years)
Last update 11/05/2009

Contact

No information available. See study information.

Documents

Available Format

NOTICE: HTML document format may differ slightly from the actual questionnaire. Please refer to the original PDF document for exact reproduction.

General Information

Name 4. Household Youth Questionnaire (Ages 2 Months - 16 Years)
Number of Question Blocks 36

Questionnaire and Question Block List

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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Age/Birth Date / Subject age / birth date
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Gender
  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Language
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  • Physical Environment / Early life and in utero exposures / Chemical Exposures / Passive Smoke Exposure
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  • Health Information / Participants Early Life Conditions / Participant's Newborn/childhood health
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  • Health Information / Participants Early Life Conditions / Participant's Birth weight
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Early life/childhood / History of Being Breastfed
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Nutrition / Food intake and Frequency / Milk products
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Weight related behaviours
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  • Body structures / Anthropometric structures / Anthropometric measures / Height
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  • Body structures / Anthropometric structures / Anthropometric measures / Weight
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  • Health Information / Perception of health/quality of life
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  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239)
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Other Healthcare Interventions
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the nervous system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the respiratory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Mental and behavioural disorders
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the circulatory system
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
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  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Cognitive, Psychosocial and Sensory Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Psyche (mental health)
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  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / General symptoms and signs
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
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  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the digestive system and abdomen
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  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving speech and voice
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Clinical Laboratory Interventions
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Diagnostic Interventions
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Other Healthcare Interventions
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions
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  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Therapeutic Interventions Strengthening the Immune System and/or Genetic Composition
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
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  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Other Healthcare Interventions
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Orocraniofacial Unit
  • Health Information / Perception of health/quality of life
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Respiratory System
  • Health Information / Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified / Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the respiratory system
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the eye and adnexa
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Cognitive, Psychosocial and Sensory Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions for Sight and Other Senses NEC
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Diagnostic Interventions / Diagnostic Interventions on the Eyes and Ocular Adnexa
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Physical/Physiological Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions on the Eyes and Ocular Adnexa
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Cognitive, Psychosocial and Sensory Therapeutic Interventions / Therapeutic Interventions for Hearing
  • Health Information / Medical Health Intervention (C239) / Diagnostic Interventions / Diagnostic Interventions on the Ears and Mastoid (process)
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Early life/childhood / Day care/preschool attendance
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Education level / Subject education level
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  • Socioeconomic Characteristics / Working status / Subject Working status/history
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  • Life Habits/Behaviours / Physical activity / Activities/Exercise and Frequency
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  • Social Environment / Familial and social environment
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  • Sociodemographic Characteristics / Language
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  • Health Information / Individual Disease history / Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Alimentary tract and metabolism (A)
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  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD)
  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Various
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  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD) / Various
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  • Health Information / Medication Intake (ATC/DDD)

General information

Name Physical and cognitive measures
Last update 07/27/2010
Collected at phase Baseline
Year interval 1988 to 1994

Contact

Geraldine McQuillan (Ph.D. / Senior Infectious Disease Epidemiologist)
Hyattsville MD 20782
Phone: 301-458-4371
Email: gmm2@cdc.govMail

Physical and cognitive measures collected

Legend Yes No

BODY STRUCTURES

ANTHROPOMETRIC STRUCTURES

Anthropometric measures

Yes Weight

Yes Height (Upper leg length, knee height, upper arm length, recumbent length (for participants under 3 years))

Yes Standing height

Yes Sitting height

Yes Body circumferences (Head circumference, mid-arm circumference, buttock circumference, thigh circumference)

Yes Waist circumference

Yes Other (Biilliac breadth, biacromial breadth, elbow breadth, wrist breadth)

Body composition

Yes Bioimpedance

Yes Bone density (Hip)

Yes Skin fold thickness (Triceps, mid-thigh, subcapular and suprailliac)

Yes Others body composition measures (Hands and knees x-ray)

STRUCTURES OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEMS

Structure of the respiratory system

Yes Lungs structures (Chest x-ray)

OTHER BODY STRUCTURES

Yes Other body structure measures (Liver/gallbladder system, Oral/dental health)

BODY FUNCTIONS

MENTAL FUNCTIONS

Specific mental functions

Yes Psychomotor functions (Symbol digit substitution)

SENSORY FUNCTIONS AND PAIN

Seeing and related functions

Yes Vision and related functions (Fundus photography)

Hearing and vestibular functions

Yes Hearing (Audiometry, Tympanometry, Air conduction)

FUNCTIONS OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEMS

Functions of the cardiovascular system

Yes Blood pressure

Yes Electrical activity (Electrocardiogram (ECG))

Functions of the respiratory system

Yes Respiratory functions (Spirometry)

NEUROMUSCULOSKELETAL AND MOVEMENT-RELATED FUNCTIONS

Yes Reaction Time (Simple reaction time)

Yes Other measures of the neuromusculoskeletal system and movement-related function (CNS test)

HANDEDNESS / LATERALITY

Yes Handedness functions

ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATIONS

LEARNING AND APPLYING KNOWLEDGE

Yes Learning (Serial Digit Learning)

Administration mode

Legend Yes No

Administration environment

Yes Hospital, clinic, university or recruitment center

No Participant residence

No Other

Staff administering test

Yes Professionals (nurses, clinicians, etc)

Yes Interviewers/research assistants

No Other

Documentation on procedures

Administration language English

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) or reference information

Reporter comments

Reference manuals and reports can be downloaded here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/nh3rrm.htm#refman

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