[Worrying behaviours of children in the assessment of kindergarten teachers in Kraków].

Aim: To assess the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems among preschool children.

Method: The Disturbing Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ), which was drawn up on the basis of the opinions of parents and educators, was completed by kindergarten teachers in the following categories: Excessive crying (Cry), Motor awkwardness (Awk), Lagging (Lag), Excessive dependence (Excdep), Developmental delay (Del), Hyperactivity (Hyper), Hyperactivity with aggression (Hypag), Aggression (Ag), Auto-aggression (Aag), Strange Behaviour (Stran), Self-Isolation (Isol), Avoiding Eating (Aveat), Avoiding certain foods (Avfd), Overeat (Overeat), Compulsive eating (Compeat) using the following assessment scale: Absent; Very rare; Rare; Frequent; Very frequent; Always.

Subjects: 961 children aged 3 to 7 years from randomly selected kindergartens from all districts of Krak6w aged from 2.

Physical development of girls from Krakow in the aspect of socioeconomical changes in Poland (1938-2010).

Objectives: This survey aimed at analyzing secular changes in the development of girls from Krakow, in the first decade of the 21st century, against the background of transformations observed in the previous century.

Methods: The data collected during a survey conducted in Krakow in 2010, in which the measurements of a total of 1,974 girls aged 3.5-18.

Secular changes in height, body weight, body mass index and pubertal development in male children and adolescents in Krakow, Poland.

This study examined the secular changes in height, body weight, body mass index and pubertal development in male children and adolescents in Krakow (Poland) over the past 80 years, with an emphasis on the last decade (2000-2010). The survey of the population of Krakow is a continuation of observations conducted in that area for many years. The analysis aims to determine whether in the last decade Krakow still witnessed the secular trend, and what form the trend took.