Wirral Child Health and Development Study

Sharp, Helen, Hill, Jonathan, Quinn, John, Pickles, Andrew and Murgatroyd, Chris (2018) Wirral Child Health and Development Study. [Data Collection]

Description

The Wirral Child Health and Development Study is a cohort study dataset comprised of observational, self-report, informant-report and biological data prospectively collected from a longitudinal birth cohort of first-time pregnant mothers, their partners and their children. The domains of repeated measurement include the mental health, life stress, personality functioning and relationship functioning of the parents; parenting behaviour and the family environment; child social, emotional, cognitive and physical development and biological data. The biological data includes mother and child saliva for DNA analysis and child physiological responses to social stress indexed by their heart rate variability (Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia), cortisol reactivity, and galvanic skin response. Teacher informant data was also gathered on child social, academic, behavioural and mental health functioning in school was gathered at age 7 and 9 years of age. Fourteen phases of data collection have been completed from 20 weeks of pregnancy to age 9 years.

Keywords:	Prospective, child development, mental health, parenting, developmental psychopathology, longitudinal
Divisions:	Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health
Depositing User:	Nicola Wright
Date Deposited:	18 Oct 2018 15:56
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2018 08:15
DOI:	10.17638/datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/564
URI:	https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/564
Additional details Additional details Creators: Sharp, Helen Hill, Jonathan Quinn, John Pickles, Andrew Murgatroyd, Chris Research funder: Grant Number Name of the Funder MR/L022257/1 Medical Research Council G0900654 Medical Research Council G0400577 Medical Research Council Date: 16 October 2018 Statement on legal, ethical and access issues : Under the consent obtained the data will only be used by members of the research team and scientific research collaborators from other academic institutions approved by the research team. Genetic material can only be used for specific purposes. Only data that are anonymised and where necessary aggregated will be shared in order to protect participant confidentiality Audio visual material will be pseudo-anonymised Data sharing will be facilitated by a Data Sharing Agreement between the external researchers’ institution and the University of Liverpool on behalf of the WCHADS Executive Committee. Further details are on the website. If access is granted, a Data Transfer Agreement will have to be put in place. Additional information: Details, including publications can be found here https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/psychology-health-and-society/departments/psychological-sciences/research/first-steps/ In depth information on the data collated will soon be available on https://www.closer.ac.uk/ Resource language: English Publisher: University of Liverpool Contact email address: first.steps@liv.ac.uk Last Modified: 19 Oct 2018 08:15

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