Study Design

The Motorik-Modul started at the then University of Karlsruhe as part of the KiGGS baseline survey from 2003 to 2008 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Klaus Bös from the Institute of Sports and Sports Science and Prof. Dr. Annette Worth (former research assistant at the University of Education Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe). A total of 4,528 participants between the ages of 4 and 17 took part in the MoMo baseline survey. This first cross-sectional study was funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ).

Under the name "MoMo Wave 1", MoMo was continued from 2009 to 2014 as a joint project of the University of Konstanz (Prof. Dr. Alexander Woll), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Prof. Dr. Klaus Bös), and the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd (Prof. Dr. Annette Worth), again in cooperation with the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), but now funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). A total of 5,106 children, adolescents and young adults took part. 2,807 participants of the MoMo baseline survey aged between 10 and 23 years were tested again (longitudinal sample). In addition, there was an increase in the number of participants aged 4 to 17, so that there is again a cross-sectional sample for children and adolescents that is representative for Germany.