TY - JOUR
T1 - Cohort description
T2 - Measures of early-life behaviour and later psychopathology in the LifeCycle Project - EU Child Cohort Network
AU - Nader, Johanna L
AU - López-Vicente, Mònica
AU - Julvez, Jordi
AU - Guxens, Monica
AU - Cadman, Tim
AU - Elhakeem, Ahmed
AU - Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta
AU - Rautio, Nina
AU - Miettunen, Jouko
AU - El Marroun, Hanan
AU - Melchior, Maria
AU - Heude, Barbara
AU - Charles, Marie-Aline
AU - Yang, Tiffany C
AU - McEachan, Rosemary R C
AU - Wright, John
AU - Polanska, Kinga
AU - Carson, Jennie
AU - Lin, Ashleigh
AU - Rauschert, Sebastian
AU - Huang, Rae-Chi
AU - Popovic, Maja
AU - Richiardi, Lorenzo
AU - Corpeleijn, Eva
AU - Cardol, Marloes
AU - Mikkola, Tuija M
AU - Eriksson, Johan G
AU - Salika, Theodosia
AU - Inskip, Hazel
AU - Vinther, Johan Lerbech
AU - Strandberg-Larsen, Katrine
AU - Gürlich, Kathrin
AU - Grote, Veit
AU - Koletzko, Berthold
AU - Vafeiadi, Marina
AU - Sunyer, Jordi
AU - Jaddoe, Vincent W V
AU - Harris, Jennifer R
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - BACKGROUND: The EU LifeCycle Project was launched in 2017 to combine, harmonise, and analyse data from more than 250,000 participants across Europe and Australia, involving cohorts participating in the EU-funded LifeCycle Project. The purpose of this cohort description is to provide a detailed overview over the major measures within mental health domains that are available in 17 European and Australian cohorts participating in the LifeCycle Project.METHODS: Data on cognitive, behavioural and psychological development has been collected on participants from birth until adulthood through questionnaire and medical data. We developed an inventory of the available data by mapping individual instruments, domain types, and age groups, providing the basis for statistical harmonization across mental health measures.RESULTS: The mental health data in LifeCycle contain longitudinal and cross-sectional data for ages 0-18+ years, covering domains across a wide range of behavioural and psychopathology indicators and outcomes (including executive function, depression, ADHD and cognition). These data span a unique combination of qualitative data collected through behavioural/cognitive/mental health questionnaires and examination, as well as data from biological samples and indices in the form of brain imaging (MRI, foetal ultrasound) and DNA methylation data. Harmonized variables on a subset of mental health domains have been developed, providing statistical equivalence of measures required for longitudinal meta-analyses across instruments and cohorts.CONCLUSION: Mental health data harmonized through the LifeCycle project can be used to study life course trajectories and exposure-outcome models that examine early life risk factors for mental illness and develop predictive markers for later-life disease.
AB - BACKGROUND: The EU LifeCycle Project was launched in 2017 to combine, harmonise, and analyse data from more than 250,000 participants across Europe and Australia, involving cohorts participating in the EU-funded LifeCycle Project. The purpose of this cohort description is to provide a detailed overview over the major measures within mental health domains that are available in 17 European and Australian cohorts participating in the LifeCycle Project.METHODS: Data on cognitive, behavioural and psychological development has been collected on participants from birth until adulthood through questionnaire and medical data. We developed an inventory of the available data by mapping individual instruments, domain types, and age groups, providing the basis for statistical harmonization across mental health measures.RESULTS: The mental health data in LifeCycle contain longitudinal and cross-sectional data for ages 0-18+ years, covering domains across a wide range of behavioural and psychopathology indicators and outcomes (including executive function, depression, ADHD and cognition). These data span a unique combination of qualitative data collected through behavioural/cognitive/mental health questionnaires and examination, as well as data from biological samples and indices in the form of brain imaging (MRI, foetal ultrasound) and DNA methylation data. Harmonized variables on a subset of mental health domains have been developed, providing statistical equivalence of measures required for longitudinal meta-analyses across instruments and cohorts.CONCLUSION: Mental health data harmonized through the LifeCycle project can be used to study life course trajectories and exposure-outcome models that examine early life risk factors for mental illness and develop predictive markers for later-life disease.
U2 - 10.2188/jea.JE20210241
DO - 10.2188/jea.JE20210241
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34776498
VL - 33
SP - 321
EP - 331
JO - Journal of Epidemiology
JF - Journal of Epidemiology
SN - 0917-5040
IS - 6
ER -