Growing up In Ireland Cohort ’98 (Child Cohort)

 

Study number (SN): 0020-01 (Wave 1)
Growing up In Ireland Child Cohort Wave 1

Study number (SN): 0020-02 (Wave 2)
Growing up In Ireland Child Cohort Wave 2

Study number (SN): 0020-03 (Wave 3)
Growing up in Ireland Child Cohort Wave 3

Study number (SN): 0020-04 (Wave 4)
Growing up In Ireland Child Cohort Wave 4

ABOUT THE STUDY

Growing Up in Ireland - the National Longitudinal Study of Children is a landmark study of children and youth which has been running since 2006. The objectives of the study are outlined in a separate publication (Greene et al. 2010). In summary, the project seeks to further our understanding of what it means to be a child or young person growing up in modern Ireland, with a view to informing policy on what both helps and hinders development. A two cohort, cross-sequential longitudinal design was adopted and began with one cohort (Cohort ‘08) of 11,134 infants (aged 9 months) and a second cohort (Cohort ‘98) of 8,568 9-year-olds. Being longitudinal in nature, the same participants are followed over time. The families of Cohort ‘08 have been interviewed when the children were 9 months, 3 years, 5 years and subsequently 9 years of age, while Cohort ’98 and their parents/guardians were interviewed at 9, 13 and 17/18 years of age.

This wave of data concerns the Wave 4 interviews of Cohort ‘98 at 20 years of age. As the 20-year-olds are now adults, they are regarded as the main respondents. One parent was also asked to complete questionnaires.

 

MAIN TOPICS

 

Emotional Development/ Child Behaviour

  • Family life
  • Life styles
  • Play/ Leisure time activities
  • Emotional development
  • Family environment
  • Parental role
  • Parental participation

Health

  • Pregnancy/ Antenatal care
  • Childbirth
  • Medical care
  • Diet and nutrition/ Breast-feeding
  • Physical activities/ Exercise
  • Physiological development
  • Anthropometric data

Education/ Cognitive processes

  • Mental development
  • Child day care
  • Educational environment
  • Teacher-student relationship

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Accessing the data

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Bibliography

Journal Articles

Crowe, M, A O’Sullivan, C McGrath, O Cassetti, L Swords, and M O’Sullivan. 2016. Early

Childhood Dental Problems Classification Tree Analyses of 2 Waves of an Infant
Cohort Study.0 JDR Clinical &Translational Research, 1: 275-84.

Crowe, M., O'Sullivan M, O. Cassetti, and O' Sullivan A. 2017. Weight Status and Dental
Problems in Early Childhood: Classification Tree Analysis of a National Cohort. Dent J
(Basel), 5. doi:10.3390/dj5030025

Crowe, M., M. O' Sullivan, O. Cassetti, C. McGrath, and A. O’ Sullivan. 2016. Data mapping to
augment dietary intake values from a nutritional database to a national cohort
survey: protocols to improve quality of reported food intake. Proceedings of the
Nutrition Society, 75.

Crowe, M., M. O'Sullivan, O. Cassetti, and A. O'Sullivan. 2019. Estimation and consumption
pattern of free sugar intake in 3-year-old Irish preschool children. Eur J Nutr.
doi:10.1007/s00394-019-02056-8

Crowe, M., O'Sullivan, M., Cassetti, O., & O'Sullivan, A. (2020). Estimation and consumption pattern of free sugar intake in 3-year-old Irish preschool children. European journal of nutrition, 59(5), 2065–2074. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-019-02056-8

Crowe, Michael, Michael O'Sullivan, Breige Ann McNulty, Oscar Cassetti, and Aifric
O'Sullivan. 2018. Data mapping from food diaries to augment the amount and
frequency of foods measured using short food questionnaires. Front Nutr, 5: 82.
doi:10.3389/fnut.2018.00082

Denny K., (2012) Breastfeeding predicts handedness Laterality. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition: 17(3) , 361-368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2011.579131

Madden, D. (2014). THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LOW BIRTH WEIGHT AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS IN IRELAND. Journal of Biosocial Science, 46(2), 248-265. doi:10.1017/S0021932013000187

Masukume, G., O' Neill, S.M., Baker, P. N., Kenny, L.C., Morton, S.M.B. and Khashan, A.S. (2018). The Impact of Caesarean Section on the Risk of Childhood Overweight and Obesity: New Evidence from a Contemporary Cohort Study. Scientific Reports, 8, Article number: 15113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33482-z

 

Matvienko-Sikar, K., Murphy, G., & Murphy, G. (2017). 'The role of prenatal, obstetric, and post-partum factors in the parenting stress of mothers and fathers of 9-month old infants'.  Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0167482X.2017.1286641

Perry, Catherine P., Keane, Eimear, Layte, Richard, Fitzgerald, Anthony P., Perry, Ivan J.  and Harrington, Janas M. (2015). The use of a Dietary Quality Score as a predictor of childhood overweight and obesity. BMC Public Health 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1907-y

Reinhard et al. 2018. The Great Recession and the Health of Young Children: A Fixed-Effects Analysis in Ireland.  American Journal of Epidemiology. https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwy001/4802709. 

Sharma, V., Cassetti, O., Winning, L., O'Sullivan, M. and Crowe. M. (2023). Protocol for developing a dashboard for interactive cohort analysis of oral health-related data. BMC Oral Health , 238. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12903-023-02895-2

 

Additional bibliography: http://www.esri.ie/growing-up-in-ireland/information-for-researchers/all-publications-using-growing-up-in-ireland-data/

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