Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health Fair Start Birth Cohort (CCCEH FS)
The CCCEH Fair Start Birth Cohort is designed to investigate how environmental exposure during pregnancy affects infant development and growth. The study recruits pregnant women aged 18 years or older from prenatal care appointments in New York, United States of America. Participants mainly identify as Hispanic and speak English and Spanish as their primary languages. They are followed up within 48 hours of the baby's birth to collect biosamples and again four months after birth. The study plans to follow mother-child pairs until the child participants are age 11.
Study design
Cohort - primary caregiver and child, Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
450 (mothers)
450 (children)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
≥ 18 years (mothers)
Birth (babies)
Participant year of birth
Varied (mothers)
Varied (babies)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2015
Primary Institutions
Columbia University
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS)
Links
niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/epidemiology/maintaining-cohorts/grantees/epidemiology
doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115652
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Audio or visual recordings (e.g. of child behaviour, facial expressions)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical environment assessment (e.g. pollution, mould)
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Interviews or focus groups
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
