All Our Families and All our babies
Initiatives
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Main aims:
* To use information from analysis of the All our Families cohort data to inform policy, programs and practice to improve the health and well being of families and communities in Alberta.
* To contribute to the understanding of the complex relationships between the prenatal period and human development, accounting for the influence of genes, lifestyle, social and physical environment and human services; and
* To develop the capacity of researchers to use and interpret complex longitudinal data for an improved understanding of factors that influence the health of individuals and communities.
- Start Year
- 2008
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Since recruitment(2008), our dedicated participants have completed two questionnaires during pregnancy and when their children were 4 months, 1, 2, 3 ,5 and 8 years of age.
Marker Paper
Tough SC, McDonald SW, Collisson BA, Graham SA, Kehler H, Kingston D, Benzies K. Cohort Profile: The All Our Babies pregnancy cohort (AOB). International Journal of Epidemiology. 2017 Feb 8. 1-13.
PUBMED 28180262
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 6,774
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Mothers were recruited before they were 25-weeks of gestation and were eligible if they were undergoing prenatal care for a singleton pregnancy in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://allourfamiliesstudy.com/our-cohort/