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Millennium Cohort Study: Age 11, Sweep 5, 2012
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a large-scale, multi-purpose longitudinal dataset providing information about babies born at the beginning of the 21st century, their progress through life, and the families who are bringing them up, for the four countries of the United Kingdom. The...
1970 British Cohort Study: Age 10, Sweep 3, 1980
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is a longitudinal birth cohort study, following a nationally representative sample of over 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. Cohort members have been surveyed throughout their childhood and adult lives, mapping their...
Buckinghamshire Child Survey, 1961 and 1978
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between childhood behaviour and subsequent adult career. The original childhood data was collected in 1961 when information was obtained from the parents and teachers of a 1 in 10 random sample of children aged 5 - 15 years attending local...
Disability in Adolescence, 1977-1979: Psychological and Social Problems of Teenagers with Cerebral Palsy and Spina Bifida with Hydrocephalus
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was:to ascertain the nature and extent of psychological and social problems in adolescents with congenital cerebral palsy or spina bifida with hydrocephalusto identify some of the factors associated with good or poor `adjustment'to assess the adequacy of services available,...
Adaptive social learning in typical and atypical developing adolescents 2016-2019
Teacher data was collected from schools and used to assess study eligibility and provide information about the participants' emotions and behaviour.
Parent data (opt in consent was obtained for participation and data sharing) were predominantly collected via post, with some collected in person at school or home visit. The questionnaires provided demographic information about...
Harpenden Growth Study, 1949-1969
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Harpenden Growth Study consisted of 701 white British children, 282 girls and 419 boys, born between 1929 and 1965 (median 1949) and recruited from the Highfield Children’s Home, Harpenden, UK between 1949 and 1969 at ages between 0.9 and 20 years. They were predominantly children of manual workers or...
Towards Better Sexual Health: a Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles of Young People in Northern Ireland, 2000-2002
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Towards Better Sexual Health was a three-year mixed methods study of sexual attitudes and lifestyles of 14-25-year-old young people in Northern Ireland. The study was undertaken jointly by the University of Ulster and the Family Planning Association (Northern Ireland) (fpaNI) from 2000-2002. The study...
Millennium Cohort Study: Age 14, Sweep 6, 2015
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Background:The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a large-scale, multi-purpose longitudinal dataset providing information about babies born at the beginning of the 21st century, their progress through life, and the families who are bringing them up, for the four countries of the United Kingdom. The...
Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey ( TRAILS ) T3 Population Cohort
The overall objective of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of adolescents’ mental (ill-)health and social development during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between determinants and these outcomes. A particular aim is to focus on the interplay between individual characteristics and...
Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey ( TRAILS ) T4 Population Cohort
The overall objective of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of adolescents’ mental (ill-)health and social development during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between determinants and these outcomes. A particular aim is to focus on the interplay between individual characteristics and...
Short-term outcomes of pubertal suppression in a selected cohort of 12 to 15 year old young people with persistent gender dysphoria in the UK 2019-2021
In adolescents with severe and persistent gender dysphoria (GD), gonadotropin releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa) are used from early/middle puberty with the aim of delaying irreversible and unwanted pubertal body changes. Evidence of outcomes of pubertal suppression in GD is limited. We undertook an uncontrolled prospective observational study of GnRHa as monotherapy in 44...
National Study of Health and Growth, Phase I: 1972-1976 (Years 1-5)
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Following changes in the provision of welfare, school milk and school meals in 1971, studies were set up to assess the possible effects of these changes upon the nutritional state of the population. The aim of the National Study of Health and Growth (NSHG) was to set up an anthropometric system of...
National Study of Health and Growth, Phase II : 1977-1981 (Years 6-10)
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Following changes in the provision of welfare, school milk and school meals in 1971, studies were set up to assess the possible effects of these changes upon the nutritional state of the population. The aim of the National Study of Health and Growth (NSHG) was to set up an anthropometric system of...
Girls' and Boys' Body Image Concerns, 1997
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.A mixed methods collection. The main aim of this project was to broaden and deepen understanding of 'normal' adolescent boys' and girls' body image concerns, in order to provide an appropriate basis for interventions aimed at promoting healthier diet and lifestyle. The project combined quantitative and...
National Study of Health and Growth, Phase III : 1982-1994 (Years 11-23)
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Following changes in the provision of welfare, school milk and school meals in 1971, studies were set up to assess the possible effects of these changes upon the nutritional state of the population. The aim of the National Study of Health and Growth (NSHG) was to set up an anthropometric system of...
Cross-Generational Investigation of the Making of Heterosexual Relationships, 1912-2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study represents the first major UK-based empirical study of the making of heterosexual relationships over the last 80 years. Making intimacy and the practices of everyday life its core focus, it asks how women and men manage and subjectively experience the institution of heterosexuality. Taking up...
National Child Development Study: Childhood Data from Birth to Age 16, Sweeps 0-3, 1958-1974
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing longitudinal study that seeks to follow the lives of all those living in Great Britain who were born in one particular week in 1958. The aim of the study is to improve understanding of the factors affecting human development over the...
Young Lives: an International Study of Childhood Poverty: Round 5, 2016
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Young Lives survey is an innovative long-term project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty in four developing countries. The study is being conducted in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam and has tracked the lives of 12,000 children over a 20-year period, through 5 (in-person) survey...
School Characteristics and Educational Achievement : the Plowden Follow-Up Study, 1967-1968
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to collect follow-up data on the children included in the national sample interviewed in the 1964 survey of primary school children for the Plowden Central Advisory Council for Education in England and Wales, using questionnaires to gather information on school...
Families of Teenagers with Down's Syndrome: Parent, Child and Sibling Adaptation, 1991
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This study is one of a series involving the Manchester Down's Syndrome Cohort. The present study relates to earlier work with the Cohort (see Figure 1 in accompanying documentation). In particular, measures used in the Family Adaptation Study in 1986-87 formed the basis of the present study, thus...
Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey ( TRAILS ) T3 Clinical Cohort
The overall objective of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of adolescents’ mental (ill-)health and social development during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between determinants and these outcomes. A particular aim is to focus on the interplay between individual characteristics and...
Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey ( TRAILS ) T1 (Baseline) Population Cohort
The overall objective of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of adolescents’ mental (ill-)health and social development during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between determinants and these outcomes. A particular aim is to focus on the interplay between individual characteristics and...
Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey ( TRAILS ) T5 Population Cohort
The overall objective of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of adolescents’ mental (ill-)health and social development during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between determinants and these outcomes. A particular aim is to focus on the interplay between individual characteristics and...
Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey ( TRAILS ) T2 Population cohort
The overall objective of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of adolescents’ mental (ill-)health and social development during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between determinants and these outcomes. A particular aim is to focus on the interplay between individual characteristics and...
Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey ( TRAILS ) T1 (Baseline) Clinical Cohort
The overall objective of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of adolescents’ mental (ill-)health and social development during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between determinants and these outcomes. A particular aim is to focus on the interplay between individual characteristics and...
Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey ( TRAILS ) T2 Clinical Cohort
The overall objective of the study is to contribute to the understanding of the determinants of adolescents’ mental (ill-)health and social development during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between determinants and these outcomes. A particular aim is to focus on the interplay between individual characteristics and...