Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition
Initiatives
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* Examine the associations between maternal prenatal nutritional intake and status and mothers' and children's mental health and children's neurodevelopment;
* Investigate the risk factors associated with maternal and paternal perinatal mood, and the impact of maternal and paternal perinatal mood on pregnancy and birth outcomes, as well as children's mental health and neurodevelopment;
* Establish a DNA biobank that could be used to examine the influence of genomics on children's mental health and neurodevelopment.
**Contact: [email protected]**
- Start Year
- 2009
- Funding
- Babes in arms, Bioderma, Brilliant Beginnings, Calgary'sChild, Calgary kids club, COBS… (https://apronstudy.ca/current-sponsors/)
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- The study has been following up the participants at 6 month, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 8 years, 12 years and 16 years. Also during the pregnancy (1-13 weeks, 14-26 weeks ans 27-40 weeks)
Marker Paper
Kaplan BJ, Giesbrecht GF, Leung BM, Field CJ, Dewey D, Bell RC, Manca DP, O'Beirne M, Johnston DW, Pop VJ, Singhal N, Gagnon L, Bernier FP, Eliasziw M, McCargar LJ, Kooistra L, Farmer A, Cantell M, Goonewardene L, Casey LM, Letourneau N, Martin JW; APrON Study Team. The Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) cohort study: rationale and methods. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2014 Jan;10(1):44-60.
PUBMED 22805165
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 5,175
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://apronstudy.ca/background/