3. Variables/factors assessed
- Maternal demographics - age, education, employment, marital status, income
- Maternal lifestyle - cigarette and alcohol consumption, pre-pregnancy physical activity
- Maternal mental health and dyadic adjustment - depression, anxiety, stress, life events, marital conflict
- Maternal child rearing - attitudes to newborns, mother-child interactions, parenting and discipline style
- Maternal health over the lifecourse
- Problem behaviours over the lifecourse
- Substance use and misuse (alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs)
- Pregnancy outcomes of the cohort children
- Mental health of mothers and cohort children
- Health and behaviour at critical time points across the life course: childhood (6 months and 5 years), early adolescence (14 years), emerging adulthood (21 years) and adulthood (30 years and 35 years).
