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Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 28/05/2020
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  Croatian Islands' Birth Cohort Study (CRIBS)
Country
 

  • Croatia
Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
  Half of the sample was collected from island subpopulations and the other half from mainland
Name
  Saša Missoni
Institution
  Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Email
  sasa.missoni@inantro.hr
Phone
  +38515535100
Personal website
  https://inantro.hr/en/staff-profiles/sasa-missoni/
Name
  Jelena Šarac
Institution
  Institute for Anthropological Research
Email
  jsarac@inantro.hr
Phone
  +38515535124
Personal website
  https://inantro.hr/en/staff-profiles/dr-jelena-sarac/
Website
 

  • http://projectcribs.inantro.hr/en/home_page/
Name of committee
  Ethical Committee of the Institute for Anthropological Research
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Saša Missoni or Jelena Šarac
Data access policy (briefly describe)
  Contact with above mentioned persons is obligatory in order to discuss the collaboration and gain data access.
Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)
  No.
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
  This project was a pilot study with the aims to: assess the prevalence of known risk factors (biological, environmental and behavioral) for the development of metabolic syndrome in Croatian islands and neighboring mainland area and to use this information as a base to develop an intervention strategy.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Prospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Mother-child cohort
Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Other
Specify: Other
  No direct comparators, but prior research conducted in the same area on adult population.
Inclusion criteria
  12 weeks or more of single pregnancy, not assisted with reproductive technology.
Exclusion criteria
  Diagnosed acute or chronic medical conditions (cancer; renal, endocrinologic, psychiatric, neurological, infectious and cardiovascular diseases), multiple gestations, persistent second or third trimester bleeding, placenta previa after the 26th week of gestation, poorly controlled hypertension, diabetes mellitus or thyroid gland disease, as well as incompetent cervix, history of recurrent miscarriages.
Enrollment
  Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
19 41 29.7±4.7

Women at enrollment
  500
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)
  • Disease incidence records
  • Hospital / physician diagnoses
Active (contact with participants) (specify)
 

  • Participants are being contacted on six occasions during monitoring and they are asked to complete 6 questionarres.
Disease incidence records (specify)
 

  • Discharge letters for mother and the baby are being collected after birth.
Hospital / Physician diagnoses (specify)
 

  • Gynecologists noted all relevant diagnoses and other conditions into the pregnancy booklet of each woman in the study.
First follow-up period (provide year)
  2016
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2020
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  6
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
Occupational history/time frame
  Current, at enrollment
Occupational coding performed
  No
Types of exposure measurements
 

  • Personal external sampling
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Self-report
Main categories
 

  • Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
 

  • Physical work load (e.g. heavy lifting of people or objects, pushing/pulling)
  • Sedentary work
  • Standing work
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Medical records
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Medical records
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • E Malnutrition and obesity
  • E Metabolism disease
  • O+P Pregnancy and labour
  • Q After birth – child disorders
E Malnutrition and obesity
 

  • Other, please state
E Malnutrition and obesity | Other (specify)
  Obesity prevalence and associated biochemical profile deviations
E Metabolism disease
 

  • Other, please state
E Metabolism disease | Other (specify)
  metabolic syndrome
O+P Pregnancy and labour
 

  • Oedema, proteinuria and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
  • Eclampsia in pregnancy, labour or puerperium
  • Excessive vomiting in pregnancy
  • Venous complications in pregnancy
  • Infections of genito-urinary tract in pregnancy
  • Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy
  • Malnutrition in pregnancy
  • Other specified pregnancy-related conditions
  • Complications of labour and delivery
  • Preterm delivery
  • Extremely low birth weight
  • Other low birth weight
  • Exceptionally large baby
  • Birth trauma
  • Congenital viral diseases
  • Foetal death of unspecified cause
  • Other, please state
Q After birth – child disorders
 

  • Congenital malformations of the nervous system incl. the brain
  • Congenital malformations of the circulatory system
  • Congenital malformations of the respiratory system
  • Cleft lip and cleft palate
  • Congenital malformations of digestive system
  • Congenital malformations of genital organs
  • Congenital malformations of the urinary system
  • Congenital malformations and deformations of the musculoskeletal system
  • Down's syndrome
  • Turner's syndrome
  • Klinefelter's syndrome
  • Other, please state
Other health related outcomes
 

  • Lifestyle change
  • Quality of life/wellbeing
  • Work participation
5. BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES & ANALYSIS
Biological samples collected
 

  • Blood
Biological processing
 

  • DNA
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
Please describe plans that are funded or most likely to be funded
  Plans are to collect as many data as possible on child growth and development and to link them with maternal data and maternal exposures.