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Longitudinal Study [PDF]

, 2020
The aim of the longitudinal study is to find out over a period of one year and four different points of measurement how idle time at the workplace (having nothing to do) affects employees. In the questionnaire of 25 minutes it is investigated how work restrictions influence the experienced idle time and thus work-related results such as occupational ...
Zeschke, Martin, Zacher, Hannes
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Mental health crisis in midlife – a proposed research agenda [PDF]

Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2021
There is a growing amount of evidence indicating increased levels of psychological distress, suicide rates and decreased well-being in midlife (age 45-55). We refer to this phenomenon as the ‘midlife mental health crisis’.
Dawid Gondek, Bettina Moltrecht, George Ploubidis   +2 more
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Parent-adolescent informant discrepancy on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2023
Background Developmental researchers often use a multi-informant approach to measure adolescent behaviour and adjustment, but informant discrepancies are common.
Charlotte Booth, Dario Moreno-Agostino, Emla Fitzsimons   +2 more
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Prevalence and early-life determinants of mid-life multimorbidity: evidence from the 1970 British birth cohort

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background We sought to: [1] estimate the prevalence of multimorbidity at age 46–48 in the 1970 British Cohort Study—a nationally representative sample in mid-life; and [2] examine the association between early-life characteristics and mid-life ...
Dawid Gondek, David Bann, Matt Brown, Mark Hamer, Alice Sullivan, George B. Ploubidis   +5 more
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Age of First Overweight and Obesity, COVID-19 and Long COVID in Two British Birth Cohorts

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2023
Longer exposure to obesity, and thus a longer period in an inflamed state, may increase susceptibility to infectious diseases and worsen severity. Previous cross-sectional work finds higher BMI is related to worse COVID-19 outcomes, but less is known ...
Charis Bridger Staatz, David Bann, George B. Ploubidis, Alissa Goodman, Richard J. Silverwood   +4 more
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Trends in the ability of socioeconomic position to predict individual body mass index: an analysis of repeated cross-sectional data, 1991–2019

BMC Medicine, 2023
Background The widening of group-level socioeconomic differences in body mass index (BMI) has received considerable research attention. However, the predictive power of socioeconomic position (SEP) indicators at the individual level remains uncertain, as
Liam Wright, Charis Bridger Staatz, Richard J. Silverwood, David Bann   +3 more
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Effects of a Time-Limited Push-to-Web Incentive in a Mixed-Mode Longitudinal Study of Young Adults

Survey Research Methods, 2023
This paper describes the impact of a time-limited push-to-web incentive on response rate and sample composition in a mixed-mode longitudinal study of young adults in the UK.
Darina Peycheva, Lisa Calderwood, Erica Wong, Richard Silverwood   +3 more
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Investigating change across time in prevalence or association: the challenges of cross-study comparative research and possible solutions

Discover Social Science and Health, 2022
Cross-study research initiatives to understand change across time are an increasingly prominent component of social and health sciences, yet they present considerable practical, analytical and conceptual challenges.
David Bann, Liam Wright, Alice Goisis, Rebecca Hardy, William Johnson, Jane Maddock, Eoin McElroy, Vanessa Moulton, Praveetha Patalay, Shaun Scholes, Richard J. Silverwood, George B. Ploubidis, Dara O’Neill   +12 more
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Inequalities in body mass index, diet and physical activity in the UK: Longitudinal evidence across childhood and adolescence

SSM: Population Health, 2021
We use longitudinal data across a key developmental period, spanning much of childhood and adolescence (age 5 to 17, years 2006–2018) from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, a nationally representative study with an initial sample of just over 19,000.
Nicolás Libuy, David Bann, Emla Fitzsimons   +2 more
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Metabolites Associated with Memory and Gait: A Systematic Review

Metabolites, 2022
We recently found that dual decline in memory and gait speed was consistently associated with an increased risk of dementia compared to decline in memory or gait only or no decline across six aging cohorts. The mechanisms underlying this relationship are
Qu Tian, Brendan A. Mitchell, Abigail E. Corkum, Ruin Moaddel, Luigi Ferrucci   +4 more
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