Social, Behavioral, and Biological Linkages Across the Life Course
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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently in 2016-18. Over the years, Add Health has collected rich demographic, social, familial, socioeconomic, behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, and health survey data from participants and their parents; a vast array of contextual data from participants’ schools, neighborhoods, and geographies of residence; and in-home physical and biological data from participants, including genetic markers, blood-based assays, anthropometric measures, and medications. Ancillary studies have added even more data over the years. Data from the project are available in various forms and have been analyzed in thousands of publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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December 14, 2015
Self-reported health is a valid measure across racial and ethnic groups
Add Health featured in the Journal of Adolescent Health
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December 1, 2015
Add Health Research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Importance of social relationships featured in Huffington Post
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November 18, 2015
Add Health Public Use Data Now Available via Dataverse
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) public-use data is now available for download from Dataverse. Add Health is part of UNC’s Dataverse...
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