- Include the new study name, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, in your Add Health publications
Add Health has been renamed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to reflect the study’s ongoing, real time life view that follows individuals from early adolescence into adulthood. Add Health researchers should use the new study name in all publications, presentations and reports based on analysis of Add Health data, as well as grant submissions that reference Add Health, and when citing the Add Health research design.
To reference the research design of Add Health data, please use the following citation:
Harris, K.M., C.T. Halpern, E. Whitsel, J. Hussey, J. Tabor, P. Entzel, and J.R. Udry. 2009. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health: Research Design [WWW document]. URL: https://addhealth.cpc.unc.edu//documentation/study-design.
Add Health researchers should use the following acknowledgement in written reports and other publications based on analysis of Add Health data:
This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website. No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis.