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The Kids Eat Kids Play results will be released very soon. The results will be released through media on 8th October. Soon after they will be available from the following website. www.health.gov.au/nutritionmonitoring
Interviewing
complete - Aug 2007
The interviewing of Kids Eat Kids Play participants has been
completed and the data is beginning to come in. Well done to all those kids
who were a part of this major survey.
Minister announcement - Feb 2007
Christopher Pyne, the Assistant Minister for Health and Ageing,
today announced the beginning of the Kids Eat Kids Play survey. "The
Australian Government hopes that every Australian family approached will
agree to participate in this important research" Pyne said. "This major
survey will provide essential, up-to-date information that will help
government formulate policy to tackle the growing problem of childhood
obesity".
Click here for full release - Full Media Release.pdf (97 KB)
Online interview - Feb 2007
New bid to tackle childhood obesity: In this five-and-a-half
minute podcast, Professor Tim Olds from University of South Australia,
discusses one of the most important surveys of children to ever take place
in Australia.
Click here to listen - CSIRO Podcast - 19 February 2007
If needed, click here to download - Windows Media Player
Media Release - Feb 2007
The Kids Eat Kids Play survey, one of the most important
surveys of children ever to be undertaken, gets underway nationally today
with thousands of phone calls to families across Australia inviting them to
participate. Participants are being recruited throughout the first half of
2007 from metropolitan and regional areas of all Australian states and
territories. The selected families will be telephoned and invited to take
part in the survey. Participants will be interviewed face-to-face about
their food intake, activity patterns, and physical measurements. A pedometer
will be used for children over 5 years, to count the number of steps they
take in a 7 day period.
Click here for full release - Full Media Release - 19 February 2007
Ready to go! - Feb 2007
Interviewers are trained and ready to start all around
Australia. 60 interviewers came from all around Australia to be involved in
a training course in Sydney. Physical activity and nutrition experts were
there to teach them the skills needed and the finer details of the Kids Eat
Kids Play survey. Now they've returned to their home regions and will begin
to start interviewing in their local neighbourhoods. This will be a part of
phase 2 of the survey, the main section of data collection. Another training
course was held in Brisbane for several telephone interviewers, and another
in Melbourne for the recruitment staff.
On
your marks..... get set.....
It's started! Already, phase 1 of the survey has been completed in October
2006. This took place in Brisbane, Qld, and Whyalla, SA. In total
approximately 100 children and their families were surveyed.
Participants were easy to find, as many willing families put their hand
up in support of the Kids Eat Kids Play survey. Feedback from this
phase showed that the quality of the data collected was very
useful and the kids all enjoyed wearing their pedometers.
The main part of the study, phase 2, will start in February 2007 and continue through to July 2007. For phase 2, a sample of over 4,000 children from across Australia will take part. Children from all states will be included and the actual number will be proportional to the population of children in that state. Recruitment for phase 2 will begin in early 2007. Stay tuned - you might just be the lucky ones to be randomly chosen.
Whyalla News - Oct 2006
Whyalla,
South Australia, has had its opportunity to be involved in the nation's
major nutrition and physical activity survey for kids. The Kids Eat
Kids Play survey took their team of interviewers to the steel city
of Whyalla in October 2006. Around 50 children and their families were
surveyed during a two week period. Leading up to the survey period, it
made page 3 in the local "Whyalla News" on September 28th 2006.
Click here to check out the full news report - Whyalla News article.doc (143 KB)
Interviewer training -
Sep 2006
During September 2006, a fresh team of
enthusiastic interviewers were trained in the processes of the entire
Kids Eat Kids Play survey. The extensive four day training course was
conducted at the University of South Australia, City East Campus,
Adelaide, SA. The project team was there in force from each of the three
partners - I-view, CSIRO and UniSA. The interviewers were trained in how
to use nutrition and physical activity reporting software programs that
allow them to find out your food intake and your energy spent throughout
the day. It was an exciting learning experience for all involved. These
interviewers were then sent out for phase 1 of the study during October 2006.
The next interviewer training will be held in Sydney from the 5th to 9th February 2007. Phone interviewers will be trained in Brisbane on the 12th and 13th February 2007. For more information about how to get involved in this area contact I-view.
Media
Announcement - July 2006
The announcement by the Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon Tony
Abbott, of the first national nutrition and physical activity survey in
more than a decade, has been welcomed by CSIRO and the University of
South Australia.
The university and CSIRO - through its Preventative Health National Research Flagship and Human Nutrition Centre - won the Department of Health and Ageing's tender to undertake the survey which will involve gathering information from more than 4000 young people from both metropolitan and regional Australia.
Project Director, Professor Timothy Olds from the University of South Australia's School of Health Sciences, says the national survey will be important to inform research and government policy and provide valuable information for industry. "This work will provide the basis for developing strategies to improve the health of Australian children," he says.
The university will contribute to the physical activity survey, which will include physical activity levels and weight status of children and young people aged between 5 years and 16 years, while CSIRO will manage the nutrition survey activities.
Dr Lynne Cobiac will manage the food and nutrition element of the survey, which will gather detailed information about the food and nutrient intake of children and young people aged two to 16 years. The Preventative Health Flagship is a multi-disciplinary partnership involving CSIRO and external partners which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians through prevention and early detection of chronic diseases.
Click here for full release - Full Media Release - 19 July 2006
