Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 02/11/2020
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  Generation XXI
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
 

  • http://www.geracao21.com/en/

Name of committee
  Ethics Committee of São João Hospital/University of Porto Medical School
Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Henrique Barros and Ana Cristina Santos
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 understand the influence of prenatal and early life years in the development and health during adolescence and adulthood.
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • General population: Regional
  • Mother-child cohort

Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Internal study population

Inclusion criteria
  All women resident in Porto metropolitan area who delivered a live-born child with more than 23 weeks of gestation in a public maternity unit, between April 2005 and August 2006.
Enrollment
  Completed
Men at enrollment
  4435
Women at enrollment
  8495
Children (<18 years) at enrollment
  8647
Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
  91.4
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)
  • Death certificate

First follow-up period (provide year)
  2009-2011
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  4
Participation at last follow-up (if known)
  70
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
 

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

Physical agents
 

  • Hand-arm vibration
  • Whole body vibration

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
  • Social support at work from supervisors
  • Skill use opportunities

Physical agents | Work/non-work interface
 

  • Work-family (work-home) interface/conflict/balance

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)
  • Medical records
  • 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)
 

  • Mortality
  • Morbidity
  • Disability

Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • C + D Neoplasms
  • E Endocrinological disease
  • E Malnutrition and obesity
  • F Mental disorders
  • I Heart disease
  • I Cerebrovascular diseases
  • J Respiratory disease
  • M Arthritis, arthrosis, systemic connective disorders, spine disorders
  • M Disorders of muscles, bones, synovialis, bursa, cartilage
  • N Kidney, renal pelvis disease
  • O+P Pregnancy and labour
  • Q After birth – child disorders
  • S Injuries

E Endocrinological disease
 

  • Thyroidea
  • Diabetes mellitus

I Heart disease
 

  • Hypertensive diseases
  • Angina pectoris
  • Acute myocardial infarction
  • Heart failure

I Cerebrovascular diseases
 

  • Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction

O+P Pregnancy and labour
 

  • Eclampsia in pregnancy, labour or puerperium
  • Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy
  • Preterm delivery
  • Other low birth weight

Other health related outcomes
 

  • Biomarkers
  • Lifestyle change
  • Sleep
  • Work participation

5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS
Biological samples collected
 

  • Blood
  • Other

Specify: Other
  teeth
Genetic and other lab analyses
 

  • Epigenomics

6. Other Information
 

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

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

  • Hospital discharge
  • Mortality register