What is it about?
The study is about mental health in the transition to parenthood, pathways to healthy and aberrant child development and possible mechanisms underlying child mental health susceptibility. The cohort comprises 10 data collection waves from enrolment in pregnancy to child age 18 months.
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Why is it important?
It should be emphasized that the study is based on multi-informant questionnaire reports, direct observation of parent-child interaction, test data and biological samples. The most significant findings so far relate to three domains of results: (1) Risk factors (parents' adverse childhood experiences and difficult child temperament), (2) later child development and social emotional outcome, and (3) relations between maternal nutrition during pregnancy and aspects of early child development.
Perspectives
I think the use of a multimethod and multi-informant design, including biological sampling, direct observation of behavior, assessment of the children’s development and self-reported information from mothers as well as fathers, is a main strength of this work.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Little in Norway: a prospective longitudinal community-based cohort from pregnancy to child age 18 months, BMJ Open, December 2019, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031050.
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