The scientific objective of the Add Health Wave V Program Project is to understand the early life precursors of chronic disease by tracing the cumulative and integrated biological, behavioral, and psychosocial processes that are hypothesized to operate in all stages of the life course. Evidence indicates that early life circumstances are related to disease susceptibility later in life, yet the mechanisms through which early life conditions influence the emergence of chronic disease are relatively unknown. At the same time, increasing evidence indicates that chronic conditions are occurring at younger ages in the US, with rates of hypertension, diabetes, stroke, and kidney disease rising among young adults. Most research links childhood exposures to adult chronic disease without any attention to the formative life stages of adolescence and the transition to adulthood and their role in predisease pathways. The nationally representative, longitudinal, multilevel design of Add Health is well suited to address this scientific gap. We propose to collect a fifth follow-up wave of interviews with original Wave I Add Health respondents over the period from 2015 to 2018 when they will be 31-42 years old. We employ new data collection innovations at Wave V that are practical and maintain data quality integrity and will benefit the field of survey research and methodology. The Wave V Program Project has three goals: 1) Re-interview Add Health cohort members in a Wave V follow-up to collect social, environmental, behavioral, and biological data with which to track the emergence of chronic disease and disease risk as the cohort moves through its fourth decade of life (Projects I, IV);2) Build upon the life course history of Add Health respondents by adding and refining early-life measures of their birth and childhood circumstances to create a 40-year longitudinal record on the Add Health cohort from birth through the fourth decade of life (Projects I, II, Ill);3) Integrate the data collected in Projects I, II, and IV with existing longitudinal data on Add Health respondents and their parents to conduct transformative research on the early life precursors of chronic disease using dynamic, multilevel, inter-generational longitudinal analysis (Project Ill).

Public Health Relevance

The Add Health Wave V Program Project will add new data to the existing longitudinal multilevel social, behavioral, biological, and genetic data to create an unparalleled scientific resource for investigating the developmental origins of health and disease. These data will be shared with the multi-disciplinary community of 10,000+ Add Health researchers to test hypotheses about the causes of chronic disease and inform public health policies for reducing chronic disease prevalence, disparities, and costs in America.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
3P01HD031921-16A1S1
Application #
8917314
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZHD1-DSR-W (HK))
Program Officer
Clark, Rebecca L
Project Start
1997-05-01
Project End
2019-04-30
Budget Start
2014-07-16
Budget End
2015-04-30
Support Year
16
Fiscal Year
2014
Total Cost
$346,269
Indirect Cost
$89,853
Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Social Sciences
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
608195277
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599
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