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Environments for Healthy Living, Griffith Study of Population Health: Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study, Child Development and Health.

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
All cause Morbidity
Child Injury
Child Quality of Life
Obesity
Child Development
Oral and Dental Health
Obstetric Complications and Birth weight
Health Care Utilisation
Public Health - Epidemiology
Registration Number
ACTRN12610000931077
Lead Sponsor
Griffith University
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
2904
Inclusion Criteria

a) Offspring of women aged 16 years or over residing within South East Queensland or Tweed NSW.
b) Planned birth at one of the three participating public hospitals (Gold Coast, Logan and The Tweed Hospitals).
c) Pregnant mothers recruited on or after 24 weeks gestation at their routine antenatal visit.
d) Offspring registered as a participant in the study at birth.

Exclusion Criteria

a) Gestational period less than 24 weeks at the time of recruitment
b) Mother aged less than 16 years
c) Inability to provide informed consent

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
All Cause Morbidity[This will be measured by follow-up proxy reports at 12 months, 3 and 5 years and data linkage to medical records from birth to 5 years of age.]
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Child Injury[This will be measured by follow-up proxy reports at 12 months, 3 and 5 years and linkage to medical records at 5 years.];Child Quality of Life[This will be measured by proxy report using the Health Utilities Instrument mark 2 (HUI2)at 5 years. The HUI2 is a multi-attribute utility instrument to measure health-related quality of life on a scale of 0 (dead) to 1 (full health) in children];Obesity[Child height and weight will be measured by anthropomorphic assessments at 5 years.];Obstetric Complications and Birth Weight[This will be assessed from perinantal data records following birth.];Child Development[This will be measured by follow-up proxy reports and age appropriate child development scales at 12 months, 3 and 5 years.];Health Care Utilisation[This will be measured by data linkage to medical records from birth to 5 years of age.]
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