IJE Advance Access originally published online on June 10, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(5):992-997; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi119
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.
Article |
Cohort Profile: The Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP)
1 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072 Australia
2 School of Medicine, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072 Australia
3 School of Social Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072 Australia
* Corresponding author. E-mail: j.najman@uq.edu.au
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
 |
How did the study come about? |
|---|
At the initiative of three hospital-based obstetricians one of the authors (Najman) and another sociologist attended a 1978 meeting to explore the potential for collaborative research. No specific project was proposed by the obstetricians. Two of the obstetricians had been trained in Scotland; one in Aberdeen where he had had some familiarity with the work of obstetrician Dugald Baird and sociologist Raymond Illsley.
The obstetricians argued for an agenda that was clinically oriented. The two sociologists were more focussed on understanding how some social constructs (e.g. social class) might be relevant to explaining health outcomes. The initial year of the study was characterised by frequent (at least weekly) meetings at which the aims and substance of the proposed study were debated vigorously. As an initial decision the team focused on factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. The first major project was to be a 3–5 years longitudinal study of pregnant
|
Funding |
|---|
|
What does MUSP cover and how has it changed? |
|---|
|
How often have participants been followed-up? |
|---|
|
What has been measured? |
|---|
|
Attrition in the MUSP |
|---|
|
Key findings |
|---|
Social and psychological impacts on child developmental health
Physical/biological findings
Methodological findings
|
Strengths and weaknesses |
|---|
|
Accessing the data |
|---|
CiteULike 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us What's this?
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  A. A. Mamun, D. A. Lawlor, S. Cramb, M. O'Callaghan, G. Williams, and J. Najman Do Childhood Sleeping Problems Predict Obesity in Young Adulthood? Evidence from a Prospective Birth Cohort Study Am. J. Epidemiol., December 15, 2007; 166(12): 1368 - 1373. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
M. R. Hayatbakhsh, R. Alati, D. M. Hutchinson, K. Jamrozik, J. M. Najman, A. A. Mamun, M. O'Callaghan, and W. Bor Association of Maternal Smoking and Alcohol Consumption with Young Adults' Cannabis Use: A Prospective Study Am. J. Epidemiol., September 1, 2007; 166(5): 592 - 598. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 A. Al Mamun, F. V O'Callaghan, R. Alati, M. O'Callaghan, J. M Najman, G. M Williams, and W. Bor Does maternal smoking during pregnancy predict the smoking patterns of young adult offspring? A birth cohort study Tob. Control, December 1, 2006; 15(6): 452 - 457. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 M. R Hayatbakhsh, J. M Najman, K. Jamrozik, A. A Mamun, G. M Williams, and R. Alati Changes in maternal marital status are associated with young adults' cannabis use: evidence from a 21-year follow-up of a birth cohort Int. J. Epidemiol., June 1, 2006; 35(3): 673 - 679. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|