The CHAMPS-study DK is a longitudinal, population-based cohort and natural experiment initiated in 2008 in the municipality of Svendborg, Denmark. The study was designed to examine how increased school-based physical education and sports participation affect children’s physical, metabolic, musculoskeletal, and psychosocial health from childhood to young adulthood.
Study Collection Waves:
CHAMPS 1 (f0–f5, 2008–2012)
Anthropometry, physical fitness, motor performance, body composition, blood pressure, objective physical activity monitoring (accelerometery), injury surveillance, biomarkers, socio-demographics, and self-reported lifestyle (parental and participant).
CHAMPS 2 (f6–f7, 2012–2014)
Continuation of CHAMPS 1 measures: anthropometry, physical fitness, motor performance, body composition, blood pressure, accelerometery, injury surveillance, biomarkers, socio-demographics, and self-reported lifestyle (parental and participant).
Added assessment of pubertal development.
Sound and Hearing (fh0, 2014)
Self-reported auditory symptoms and sound tolerance (e.g., tinnitus, hyperacusis, sound avoidance, concerns about noise-induced hearing loss).
Clinical assessments: otoscopy, pure-tone audiometry, tympanometry, and detailed otological history.
CHAMPS 3 (f8, 2015)
Measures repeated from CHAMPS 2: anthropometry, physical fitness, motor performance, body composition, blood pressure, accelerometery, injury surveillance, biomarkers, socio-demographics, self-reported lifestyle (parental and participant), and pubertal development.
Added academic and cognitive performance assessments, including executive function and scholastic outcomes.
EYESIGHT (f8, 2015)
Ocular assessments: refractive status, myopia classification, ocular biometry, retinal vascular structure, retinal imaging, choroidal structure, macular structure, visual function, and comprehensive ophthalmological examination.
CHAMPS 4 (f9, 2022–2024)
Core measures: anthropometry, body composition, blood pressure, accelerometery, biomarkers, socio-demographics, and self-reported lifestyle (parental and participant).
Added measures: hair cortisol, stress, well-being and pfas.
Sound and Hearing 2 (fh9, 2022–2024)
Measures repeated from Sound and Hearing: Self-reported auditory symptoms and sound tolerance (tinnitus, hyperacusis, sound avoidance, concerns about noise-induced hearing loss), listening habits, and environmental noise exposure.
Clinical assessments: otoscopy, audiometry, tympanometry, and detailed otological history.
Contact:
Collaboration opportunities for external researchers are available upon reasonable request.
Please contact:
Mina Nicole Händel: mina.nicole.holmgaard.handel@regionh.dk
Niels Wedderkopp: nwedderkopp@health.sdu.dk