No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II
Background: Migration is omnipresent. It can come hand in hand with emotional stress which is known to influence the growth of children. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse whether type of migration (forced or voluntary) and the geographic direction had influenced the growth of Polish...
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Background: Migration is omnipresent. It can come hand in hand with emotional stress which is known to influence the growth of children.
Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse whether type of migration (forced or voluntary) and the geographic direction had influenced the growth of Polish children after World War II.
Sample and Methods: A sub dataset of 2,208 individuals between the ages of 2-20, created from data of the 2nd Polish Anthropological Survey carried out in 1966–1969, including anthropometrical data and social and demographic information based on questionnaire, was used to analyse migration effects.
Results: No association could be found between the direction of migration and the height of the children. The confidence intervals of the means of all classified migration categories overlap significantly and the effect size of the influence of migration category on height is ds=.140, which is too low to see any effects, even if there were one.
Conclusion: Neither forced nor voluntary migration in Poland after World War II led to a change in height in children of migrating families.
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| spelling | doaj.art-22bb37232f9e4e39a04fecdb20e092ec2024-04-02T07:02:46ZengUniversitätsverlag PotsdamHuman Biology and Public Health2748-99572023-07-01110.52905/hbph2023.1.68No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War IIAntonia Rösler0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3016-3591Christiane Scheffler1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1954-7578Michael Hermanussen2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4037-1597University of Potsdam, Human Biology, 14469 Potsdam, Germany.University of Potsdam, Human Biology, 14469 Potsdam, Germany.Aschauhof 3, 24340 Eckernförde – Altenhof, Germany. Background: Migration is omnipresent. It can come hand in hand with emotional stress which is known to influence the growth of children. Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse whether type of migration (forced or voluntary) and the geographic direction had influenced the growth of Polish children after World War II. Sample and Methods: A sub dataset of 2,208 individuals between the ages of 2-20, created from data of the 2nd Polish Anthropological Survey carried out in 1966–1969, including anthropometrical data and social and demographic information based on questionnaire, was used to analyse migration effects. Results: No association could be found between the direction of migration and the height of the children. The confidence intervals of the means of all classified migration categories overlap significantly and the effect size of the influence of migration category on height is ds=.140, which is too low to see any effects, even if there were one. Conclusion: Neither forced nor voluntary migration in Poland after World War II led to a change in height in children of migrating families. https://www.human-biology-and-public-health.org/index.php/hbph/article/view/68nutritionstuntingsocioeconomyeducationsecular changespubertal timing |
| spellingShingle | Antonia Rösler Christiane Scheffler Michael Hermanussen No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II Human Biology and Public Health nutrition stunting socioeconomy education secular changes pubertal timing |
| title | No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II |
| title_full | No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II |
| title_fullStr | No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II |
| title_full_unstemmed | No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II |
| title_short | No evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in Polish school children after World War II |
| title_sort | no evidence of growth impairment after forced migration in polish school children after world war ii |
| topic | nutrition stunting socioeconomy education secular changes pubertal timing |
| url | https://www.human-biology-and-public-health.org/index.php/hbph/article/view/68 |
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