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Tackling the challenges in conducting a 5‐year longitudinal study of the Healthy Beginnings Trial
Author(s) -
Viney Lauren,
Goodwin Maxine
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
health promotion journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2201-1617
pISSN - 1036-1073
DOI - 10.1071/he13087
Subject(s) - health promotion , population health , publishing , citation , community health , health economics , service (business) , medicine , health services , library science , public health , gerontology , media studies , sociology , political science , population , nursing , business , environmental health , law , marketing , computer science
The Healthy Beginnings Trial is a 5 year longitudinal study of 667 first-time mothers and their babies, conducted in some of the most socially and economically disadvantaged areas of Sydney between 2007 and 2013. The aim was to determine whether a home-based obesity intervention during the first 2 years of life is effective for children at 2, 3.5 and 5 years of age. The details of the results from the 2 year follow up are reported elsewhere, and the 3.5- and 5-year follow-up of the trial is still underway. However, challenges conducting this longitudinal face-to-face survey are yet to be reported.