scholarly journals Predicting future weight status from measurements made in early childhood: a novel longitudinal approach applied to Millennium Cohort Study data

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e200-e200 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Mead ◽  
A M Batterham ◽  
G Atkinson ◽  
L J Ells
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Millennium Cohort Study ◽  
Longitudinal Approach ◽  
Made In

scholarly journals The effect of childhood deprivation on weight status and mental health in childhood and adolescence: longitudinal findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J Noonan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Millennium Cohort Study ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties ◽  
Childhood Deprivation

Abstract Background The study aims were to: (i) examine associations between deprivation at age 7 and health outcomes at age 7 and 14, (ii) determine whether a deprivation gradient to health outcomes exists at age 7 and 14, and (iii) assess the extent to which health outcomes at age 7 are associated with health outcomes at age 14. Methods Data were from wave four and six of the Millennium Cohort Study. Health outcome measures were weight status, and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire measured mental health problems. Deprivation was determined using the 2004 English Indices of Multiple Deprivation. Adjusted logistic and multinomial logistic regressions were conducted. Results A total of 6109 children (1890 girls) had complete data. Overweight, obesity and mental health problems were greatest among children in the highest deprivation decile at age 7 and 14 (P < 0.001). Health outcomes at age 7 were significantly associated with health outcomes at age 14 (P < 0.001). Conclusions A marked social gradient to weight status and mental health was evident at age 7 and 14, and no evidence of equalization was found. Weight status and mental health in childhood is strongly associated with weight status and mental health in adolescence.

scholarly journals Undesirable social relations as risk factors for loneliness among 14-year-olds in the UK: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 016502542096573
Author(s):  
Keming Yang ◽  
Kimberly J. Petersen ◽  
Pamela Qualter
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Millennium Cohort Study ◽  
Friendship Relations ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Uk

In the current study, data collected from Wave 6 of the Millennium Cohort Study ( n = 11,872), a nationally representative sample survey of youth aged 14 years in the UK, are used to examine the prevalence of loneliness among this age-group, investigate the feelings associated with the experience of loneliness among youth, explore the risk factors for loneliness among young people, and learn how they coped with loneliness. Given recent findings that youth are vulnerable to loneliness, the study assesses the prevalence of loneliness among adolescents across some important sociodemographic characteristics, such as nation of residence, gender, and ethnicity. We also identify the kinds of social experiences that accompany loneliness during adolescence, exploring friendship, relations with parents, social support, and bullying. Our key finding is that, in addition to the absence of desired social relationships, which has been typically identified as the ultimate source of loneliness, the presence of undesirable and even harmful social relationships is a major source of loneliness. This study uniquely brings together psychological and sociological perspectives to understand the experience of youth loneliness.

scholarly journals Changes in family structure in early childhood in the Millennium Cohort Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Panico ◽  
Mel Bartley ◽  
Yvonne Kelly ◽  
Anne McMunn ◽  
Amanda Sacker
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Millennium Cohort Study

scholarly journals Early individual and family predictors of weight trajectories from early childhood to adolescence: results from the Millennium Cohort Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constança Soares dos Santos ◽  
João Picoito ◽  
Carla Nunes ◽  
Isabel Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Maternal Education ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Growth Mixture Modeling ◽  
Millennium Cohort Study ◽  
Early Weight Gain ◽  
Bmi Trajectories ◽  
Weight Trajectories

AbstractBackgroundEarly infancy and childhood are critical periods in the establishment of lifelong weight trajectories. Parents and early family environment have a strong effect on children’s health behaviors that track into adolescence, influencing lifelong risk of obesity.ObjectiveWe aimed to identify developmental trajectories of body mass index (BMI) from early childhood to adolescence and to assess their early individual and family predictors.MethodsThis was a secondary analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study and included 17,166 children. Weight trajectories were estimated using growth mixture modeling based on age- and gender-specific BMI Z-scores, followed by a bias-adjusted regression analysis.ResultsWe found four BMI trajectories: Weight Loss (69%), Early Weight Gain (24%), Early Obesity (3.7%), and Late Weight Gain (3.3%). Weight trajectories were mainly settled by early adolescence. Lack of sleep and eating routines, low emotional self-regulation, child-parent conflict, and low child-parent closeness in early childhood were significantly associated with unhealthy weight trajectories, alongside poverty, low maternal education, maternal obesity, and prematurity.ConclusionsUnhealthy BMI trajectories were defined in early and middle-childhood, and disproportionally affected children from disadvantaged families. This study further points out that household routines, self-regulation, and child-parent relationships are possible areas for family-based obesity prevention interventions.

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