1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION |
Cohort name
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Aberdeen Children of the 1950s
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Country
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Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
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Aberdeen, Scotland
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Name
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Shantini Paranjothy
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Institution
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University of Aberdeen
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Email
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shantini.paranjothy@abdn.ac.uk
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Website
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- www.abdn.ac.uk/birth-cohorts
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Name of committee
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North of Scotland
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Or provide website
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- Cohort profile paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3016.2004.00552.x
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Data access policy (briefly describe)
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Data requests are considered by the cohort Steering Group. On approval, subsets of the dataset are released for analysis within a SafeHaven. Please contact the study administrator for details: children1950s@abdn.ac.uk
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Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
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The Children of the 1950s study is a population-based resource primarily for the study of biological and social influences on health across the life-course and between generations.
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Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
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Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
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- General population: Regional
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Inclusion criteria
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Born in Aberdeen in the 1950s
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Enrollment
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Completed
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Age range at entry (main cohort)
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Men at enrollment
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6282
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Women at enrollment
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5686
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Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
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100
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2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP |
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Active (contact with participants)
- Death certificate
- Disease incidence records
- Hospital / physician diagnoses
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Active (contact with participants) (specify)
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- Regular contact with the participants is maintained. In 2019 this accounted for around 5000 of the total 12150 original cohort members
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Death certificate (specify)
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- Death notifications are received regularly for the 98% of the cohort who were traced in 2001
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Hospital / Physician diagnoses (specify)
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- Cohort data can be linked to routinely collected hospital records
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First follow-up period (provide year)
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1964
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Last follow-up period (provide year)
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2001
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Participation at last follow-up (if known)
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70
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Comments
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Over 70% replied to a postal questionnaire sent in 2001
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3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES |
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
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Occupational history/time frame
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Other (specify)
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Specify: Other
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Employment in 2001. Also father's employment in childhood
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Occupational coding performed
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Yes
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Occupation (specify coding system used)
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- ISCO, Nuffield, Registrar General, OPCS
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4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED |
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
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- Death certificates
- Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
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Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
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- Death certificates
- Medical records
- Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
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Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Mortality
- Morbidity
- Disability
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Other health related outcomes
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- Quality of life/wellbeing
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Comments
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Data can be linked to hospital morbidity records
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5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS |
Comments
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No biological samples collected
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6. Other Information |
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- Alcohol
- Anthropometry
- Demographics
- Education
- Medical history
- Socioeconomic status
- Smoking
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Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
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- Hospital discharge
- Medication usage
- Migration
- Mortality register
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