作者
Diana Kuh, Andrew Wong, Imran Shah, Adam Moore, Maria Popham, Philip Curran, Daniel Davis, Nikhil Sharma, Marcus Richards, Mai Stafford, Rebecca Hardy, Rachel Cooper
发表日期
2016/11
期刊
European journal of epidemiology
卷号
31
页码范围
1135-1147
出版商
Springer Netherlands
简介
A life course approach to ageing relies on maintaining participation rates in national birth cohorts and other long-term longitudinal studies. This reduces the risk of selective attrition biasing associations between lifetime risk factors and health outcomes in later life and ensures the studies remain as representative as possible of the original population. We report the participation patterns for a postal questionnaire and home visit at 68–69 years of study members in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, the oldest and longest-running British birth cohort study. We investigated how participation varied by lifetime and recent contact, health status, previous clinical feedback and study engagement, taking account of prior socioeconomic and cognitive characteristics. Overall participation and home visit participation remained high (94 and 80%, respectively) and there were no gender differences …
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