TY - GEN A1 - Moor, Irene A1 - Winter, Kristina A1 - Bilz, Ludwig A1 - Bucksch, Jens A1 - Finne, Emily A1 - John, Nancy A1 - Kolip, Petra A1 - Paulsen, Lisa A1 - Ravens-Sieberer, Ulrike A1 - Schlattmann, Marina A1 - Sudeck, Gorden A1 - Brindley, Catherina A1 - Kaman, Anne A1 - Richter, Matthias T1 - The 2017/18 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study – Methodology of the World Health Organization’s child and adolescent health study T2 - Journal of Health Monitoring N2 - The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is an international research project in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) for over 35 years. HBSC is the largest study on child and adolescent health and one of the most important sources of data for the WHO’s international comparative health monitoring. Every four years, data on the health and health behaviour of students aged 11, 13 and 15, as well as the social contexts and conditions for growing up healthy, are collected. A total of 50 countries belong to the HBSC network, with 45 countries taking part in the 2017/18 survey. Germany has contributed to the HBSC surveys since 1993/94. For the most recent 2017/18 cycle, students at 146 schools in Germany were interviewed (response rate of schools: 15.6%). A net sample of n = 4,347 girls and boys was achieved for Germany (response rate: 52.7%). Participation was voluntary and the survey was conducted in German school years five, seven and nine (corresponding to ages 11, 13 and 15). A weighting procedure was applied to allow for representative findings on the health of children and adolescents in Germany. HBSC offers a valuable contribution to health monitoring and provides numerous starting points to identify needs, risk groups and fields of action to initiate targeted and actual needs-based measures of prevention and health promotion in the school setting. KW - adolescents KW - health behaviour KW - health monitoring KW - health determinants KW - HBSC Y1 - 2020 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-UBICO/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25993 UR - https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Health_Monitoring/Health_Reporting/GBEDownloadsJ/ConceptsMethods_en/JoHM_03_2020_HBSC_Methodology.pdf?__blob=publicationFile SN - 2511-2708 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 88 EP - 102 ER -