Collected Dataset / TargetKids!_18_months

The population is composed of children, under six years of age at the time of recruitment, and attending scheduled health maintenance visit with their primary care physician.

Information is collected from many questionnaires, including the Nutrition and Health Questionnaire (child's food and fluid intake, physical growth, physical activity, sedentary behavior, and factors influencing food intake), the NutriSTEP (child's food and nutrient intake, physical growth, developmental and physical capabilities, physical activity, food security, and feeding environment), the Nipissing District Developmental Screen (vision, hearing, communication, motor function, self-help, and cognitive, social and emotional function), the Infant Toddler Checklist (communication delays, emotion and use of eye gaze, use of communication, use of gestures, use of sounds, use of words, understanding of words and use of objects) and the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (developmental delay in communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem-solving and personal social behavior).

At each visit, children and their accompanying parent have height, weight, and waist circumference measured.

A blood sample is also taken.