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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"millennium cohort study"”.
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Are poor people healthier in rich or poor areas?: The psychosocial effects of socioeconomic incongruity in the neighbourhood
… using a sample of mothers from England in the Millennium Cohort Study. The second study is similar and uses the same dataset, but instead of health, psychosocial factors were analysed. The third study, specific to London, uses data from the 2001 census to investigate the health impact of living …
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Which women are at an increased risk of operative birth in the UK?
… mother-infant pairs in the first wave of the Millennium Cohort Study, 2000-2002. Multivariable regression models were used to establish the independent socio-demographic, socio-economic, interpersonal, pregnancy and fetal predictors of mode of birth, stratified by parity where possible. …
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An investigation into inequalities in parent-child involvement in active play
… evidence, interview data from a contemporary study of families in the UK, the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), were analysed. A dataset of children aged four to six years old living with their birth mothers (n=12,437), and a subset of those who were also living with their birth fathers (n=7997) …
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How can breastfeeding support services best meet the needs of women of Bangladeshi origin living in the UK?
… analysis of 357 Bangladeshi women in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) provided a more detailed national context for the qualitative research. <br/>A cumulative qualitative design underpinned by reflexivity was used comprising focus groups and interviews with grandmothers, fathers, mothers …
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Testing the specificity question - do environmental factors have broad or specific associations with key developmental outcomes?
… drug use, and cognitive development. The first study is a validation study for a series of novel cognitive assessments created for the Cambridge-based RED longitudinal study, which are utilized in later chapters (adapted from Bignardi et al. 2020). The second study investigates whether ratings …
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Alcohol Misuse Among Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Military Healthcare Professionals
… of alcohol abuse among civilian providers. This study explored whether military healthcare professionals involved with OIF/OEF operations have increased risk for alcohol misuse (i.e., problem drinking, heavy weekly drinking, heavy episodic drinking). Three evidence-based hypotheses were …
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Essays in family and labour economics
… childhood outcomes in the Britain. Using the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), various children’s production functions are used to deal with endogeneity of inputs and unobserved heterogeneity problems. Findings suggest that mothers entitled to in-work benefit has positive effects on both …
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Inequalities in children's physical activity and interventions
… association was demonstrated both in the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study and South Africa’s Birth to Twenty Cohort. A subsequent analysis of pooled and harmonized data from 36 European cohorts with accelerometer-assessed physical activity confirmed these findings. It also revealed that …
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The role of the social environment in adolescent adiposity and physical activity
… media use and adiposity using data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a large population-based cohort of young people in the UK. I first investigated these associations cross-sectionally, showing that social media use and measured BMI z-score at age 14 years was associated in girls at the ≥5 …
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Aetiological role of early lifestyle exposures in puberty timing
… Similarly, in the only one identified study in males (n=197,714 British men), relatively younger (versus ‘about average’) voice breaking was associated with higher risk of T2D. These associations were only partially mediated by adiposity, thus warranting examination of the determinants …
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The impact of pregnancy and birth complications on long-term maternal mental health
… A detailed description of the methodology and study designs used in this thesis is provided in Chapter 2. Chapters 3 and 4 described the association between pregnancy and birth complications and long-term maternal mental health disorders, synthesised using a systematic review and meta-analysis. …
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Essays on Noncognitive Skills
… at different developmental stages; first, I study the formation of noncognitive skills in early childhood and, second, I examine the effect of noncognitive skills on the gender wage gap during mid- and late- adulthood. In the first chapter I propose a novel mechanism through which mothers …
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Developmental burden of childhood adversity: Insight from longitudinal perspectives
… cognitive abilities and brain development. In study 1, I analyzed a large sample (N=13,287) of 5 wave longitudinal data obtained from the Millennium Cohort Study in an attempt to understand how early-life adversity, mental health and cognition affect one another or how the effects unfold over …
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Modelling the Relationship between Parental Behaviour and Childhood Skill Development: Empirical Evidence from the UK and Canada
This longitudinal, quantitative methods research defines a theoretical framework to model the developmental trajectories of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in primary school children and capture the role that parenting plays in the joint evolution of these skills. This framework draws on …
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Caesarean section delivery and childhood obesity
… often derived from non-nationally representative cohorts has been inconsistent, limited by small sample size, often unable to distinguish between elective and emergency CS, have publication bias favouring positive effects and often unable to adjust for key confounders like maternal pre-pregnancy …
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Understanding the Dynamics of Depressive Symptoms Over Time: A Developmental Perspective
… Questionnaire (SMFQ) in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a population-based study in South-West England (N = 7,364; ages 11-26). Longitudinal MI was not fully supported in models that included ages 11 and 13, but the highest level of MI (strict) was established from …