Tasmanian Infant Health Study (TAHS)
Initiatives
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The original aims of the survey were to provide an epidemiological description of childhood asthma, which has a variable natural history requiring:
1. an estimate of its prevalence among children of a suitable age;
2. an estimate of the probability that an individual will change disease status during any given period;
3. an estimate of any secular trend, specifically any tendency for the incidence to vary over time.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 1968
- Funding
- The baseline 1968 study received its initial funding in 1967 from the Tasmanian Asthma Foundation, and since that time the study has received funding from several sources for different follow-up waves and components of the study. Funding bodies have included the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (grants #299901, #454425, #566931 #628513 and #1021275); Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust of Tasmania; Victorian, Queensland, and Tasmanian Asthma Foundations; the Australian Lung Foundation; Helen Macpherson Smith Trust; Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation; GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Melbourne
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Participants were young enough to allow for follow-up of at least 7 years through the school system
Marker Paper
Matheson MC, Abramson MJ, Allen K, et al. Cohort Profile: The Tasmanian Longitudinal Health STUDY (TAHS). Int J Epidemiol. 2017;46(2):407-408i. doi:10.1093/ije/dyw028
PUBMED 27272183
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 7,380
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Children born in 1961 and attending school in the island state of Tasmania, Australia.(7 years at the time of the baseline survey.)
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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