Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 12/01/2022
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  EPITeen
Country
 

  • Portugal

Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
  Porto
Name
  Henrique Barros
Email
  henrique.barros@ispup.up.pt
Website
 

  • https://ispup.up.pt/research/research-structures/cohorts/epiteen/?lang=en

Name of committee
  Ethics Committee of São João Hospital/University of Porto Medical School
Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Henrique Barros
Participation in pooled analyses
 

  • The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).

Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  To study growth, development and health from adolescence to young adulthood
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • General population: Regional

Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Internal study population

Inclusion criteria
  Being born in 1990 and attending all schools (public and private) in Oporto in 2003/04
Enrollment
  Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
13 14 13

Children (<18 years) at enrollment
  2942
Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
  77.5
Comments
  The final sample of the EPITeen cohort, with a total of 2942 participants, includes 783 students born in the same year but who moved to Porto after 2003/2004 and were additionally recruited to the cohort in 2007/2008.
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)

First follow-up period (provide year)
  2007
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2017
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  4
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)

Occupational history/time frame
  Follow-up period
Occupational coding performed
  Yes
Occupation (specify coding system used)
 

  • Portuguese Classification of Occupations 2010, based on ISCO-08

Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Self-report

Main categories
 

  • Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
  • Psychosocial domains
  • Organisation of work including working time

Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
 

  • Awkward work postures (e.g. kneeling/squatting, elevated arms, neck flection, back bent forward without support)
  • Physical work load (e.g. heavy lifting of people or objects, pushing/pulling)
  • Repetitive work movements
  • Sedentary work
  • Work with video display units (VDU)

Psychosocial domains | Job task characteristics/organization of work
 

  • Career advancement opportunities
  • Job control, autonomy
  • Psychological job demands
  • Social support at work from supervisors
  • Skill use opportunities

Organisation of work including working time | Employment conditions
 

  • Job insecurity

4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Biomarker (specify)
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)

Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Biomarker (specify)
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)

Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Morbidity

Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • E Endocrinological disease
  • F Mental disorders
  • J Respiratory disease
  • M Disorders of muscles, bones, synovialis, bursa, cartilage
  • S Injuries

E Endocrinological disease
 

  • Diabetes mellitus

F Mental disorders
 

  • Depression
  • Eating disorders

J Respiratory disease
 

  • Chronic rhinitis, nasopharyngitis and pharyngitis
  • Asthma

Other health related outcomes
 

  • Lifestyle change
  • Work participation

5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS
Biological samples collected
 

  • Blood

6. Other Information
 

  • Alcohol
  • Anthropometry
  • Demographics
  • Diet
  • Education
  • Medical history
  • Physical exercise
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Smoking

Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
 

  • Hospital discharge
  • Mortality register