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The National Children's Study: Design and measurement issues
Patricia McGovern, Michael Davern, Wendy Hellerstedt, and Charles Oberg, University of Minnesota School of Public Health
| What | MPC Seminar Series |
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| When |
October 20, 2008 12:15 PM
October 20, 2008 01:15 PM
October 20, 2008 from 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm |
| Where | MPC Seminar Room, 50 Willey Hall |
| Contact Email | mpc@umn.edu |
| Contact Phone | 612-624-8806 |
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Abstract: The National Children’s Study (NCS), funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, will be the largest and most comprehensive study of child health ever conducted in the United States. It will examine how environmental, biologic, behavioral, and genetic factors are associated with pregnancy outcomes and with the health and development of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The NCS is an observational study that will be conducted in 105 locations in the U.S., including Ramsey County. It will include a representative sample of 100,000 women and their offspring. University of Minnesota researchers, in collaboration with health-care and community partners, will administer the Ramsey County site. NCS intends to recruit study mothers before conception and in the first trimester of pregnancy. Participants will be selected using a probability sampling of households with the goal of enrolling 1000 women. This seminar will discuss methodological challenges in NCS sampling and exposure and outcome measurement.
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