Table 2

Instruments, assessments and investigations in the study protocol

Data to be collected now (2019 onwards)
Data ofVariables
ParentsSociodemographic variables including socioeconomic status, education, occupation, family structure and composition (type of family, family size, place of residence, etc)
Adolescent ChildrenAnthropometry (by standardised procedures)
  • Height in cms

  • Weight in kilo gram

  • Waist circumference in centimetre

  • Hip circumference in centimetre

  • Head circumference in centimetre

  • Leg length in centimetre

Assessment of mental health
  • Child Trauma Questionnaire

  • Patient Health Questionnaire-Adolescents to assess the depression scores

  • Adolescent Life Events Stress Scale to assess the stressful life events

Assessment of Cognition
  • Digit span, Matrix Reasoning, Picture completion, Block design from Wechsler’s Intelligence Scale for Children IV Indian adaptation21

  • Assessment of Immediate and delayed recall by Word list recall test

  • Assessment of semantic perception

  • Assessment of verbal fluency

Vision
  • Snellen’s Chart

Audiological Evaluation:
  • Otoscopic evaluation

  • Pure tone audiometry

  • Immittance: Tympanometry and relaxometry

Speech evaluation
  • Oral peripheral mechanism

  • Examination of structure and functions of oral structures

  • Assessment of voice by maximum phonation duration and s/z ratio

  • Assessment of fluency by stuttering severity

  • Assessment of articulation by diadochokinetic rate

Language evaluation
  • Linguistic profile by phonology

  • Morphology, syntax and semantics

  • Reception

  • Expression

  • Reading and writing

Staging of puberty
  • A self-administered questionnaire based on tanner staging