What is it about?
The study examines mental health during the transition to parenthood, factors influencing healthy and atypical child development, and mechanisms of child mental health risk. The cohort includes data from 10 collection waves, spanning pregnancy through 18 months of age.
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Why is it important?
The study uses multi-informant questionnaires, parent-child observation, tests, and biological samples. Key findings involve: (1) risk factors like parents' adverse childhood experiences and child temperament, (2) later child development and social-emotional outcomes, and (3) links between maternal nutrition during pregnancy and early child development.
Perspectives
The use of a multimethod and multi-informant design—including biological sampling, direct observation of behaviour, assessment of children's development, and self-reported information from both mothers and fathers—is a notable aspect 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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