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11-year follow-up

The 11-year follow-up of the DNBC children was launched in July 2010. For the next 4 years we will be sending letters to 500 families every week to ask parents and their 11-year old participant to fill in our web-based questionnaire...

From 1997-2002 The Danish National Birth Cohort collected data from 100.000 pregnant women and their babies across Denmark. The 7-year follow up was conduced from 2005-2010. The next data sweep is the follow-up of our 11-year olds - starting in July 2010 and ending i 2014, when the youngest DNBC participant turns 11.

The 11-year follow up consists of 2 questionnaires - one for the mother and one for the child.

Parent Questionnaire
In the parent questionnaire we ask about

  • diet
  • sun exposure, RF exposure, chlorine exposure
  • vaccinations
  • housing conditions, (pets, smoking, use of fireplace, candles, moisture in house)
  • handicaps
  • childhood diseases, infections, fractures
  • ISAAC-questionnaires (allergies, wheezy breathing, rash)
  • vision, hearing, diction problems
  • enuresis, circumcision,  brushing of teeth
  • SDQ, social competences
  • height, weight and waist measurement for child, mother and father
  • diseases in family (parets and grandparents: hypertension, arthritis, depression, allergies......)
  • diseases in mother (diabetes, hypertension, asthma, allergies, depression, back problems......) - and treatment
  • migraine and smoking in mother
  • phenotyping of mother (earlobes, curly hear, widow's peak, etc)
Last revised 21 December 2011

Contact

Danish National Birth Cohort
Inger Kristine Meder
Project Coordinator

Tel: + 45 3268 8121