Linking childhood cognition to health and administrative data
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Childhood cognition and wellbeing across the life course: Linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 to healthcare and administrative data.
IRAS ID
215030
Contact name
Chris Dibben
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Academic and Clinical Central Office for Research and Development
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 8 months, 2 days
Research summary
As the population ages, and as individuals are expected to work and function for longer, it is increasingly important to understand what contributes to health and wellbeing in later life. However, older adults are particularly prone to function-limiting health issues (e.g., respiratory or cardiovascular conditions) which impact their ability to live independent and productive lives, and which detrimentally affect their wellbeing. This project will examine the life courses of individuals born in Scotland in 1936, now aged 80, who took part in the Scottish Mental Survey 1947. This measure of cognitive ability tested at age 11 years makes these individuals unusually valuable. The proposed project will link data from the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 to a lifetime of available healthcare and administrative data in order to examine the associations of childhood cognitive ability and socio-economic status with later-life health and wellbeing. Of particular interest for this project is the association between childhood social and cognitive factors and later-life recovery (after stroke or cardiovascular disease), use of care, and economic activity.
REC name
West Midlands - Black Country Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/WM/0499
Date of REC Opinion
29 Nov 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion