Bachpan Cohort
The Bachpan Cohort is a prospective pregnancy–birth cohort designed to investigate the effects of depression on socio-emotional development of children. The cohort includes a baseline sample of pregnant women (584 non-depressed and 570 depressed) living in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 40 village clusters that comprise the rural sub-district of Kallar Syedan. The sample was recruited between October 2014 and February 2016. The average age of new mothers was 26.7 at baseline with an average of 7.7 years of educational attainment. A subsample was included of mother–child dyad DNA and inflammatory biomarkers (73 and 104, respectively).
Study design
Cohort - primary caregiver and child, Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
1,154 (mothers)
1,021 (babies)
Age at first data collection
Varied (mothers)
3 months (babies)
Participant year of birth
Varied (mothers)
2014 - 2016 (babies)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2014
Primary Institutions
Health Services Academy (HSA)
Human Development Research Foundation (HDRF)
Links
Profile paper DOI
Funders
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Interview – phone
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Ethnography or participant observation
- Interviews or focus groups
- None
- None
Engagement
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