Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO)
GUSTO is a prospective, parent-offspring, birth cohort study following around 1,000 Singaporean children and their parents. 1,247 pregnant women aged 18 years and above, in their first trimester, were recruited from two major public maternity units in Singapore between 2009 and 2010. Expectant mothers were Singapore citizens or permanent residents, and of Chinese, Malay, or Indian ethnicity. Mothers receiving chemotherapy, psychotropic drugs or who had type I diabetes were excluded, and parents with mixed ethnic backgrounds were also excluded. 1,176 babies were born between 2009 and 2011, and have since been followed up regularly, along with their parents.
Study design
Cohort - birth, Cohort - primary caregiver and child
Number of participants at first data collection
1,176 (children)
1,247 (mothers)
Age at first data collection
Birth (children)
18 - 46 years (mothers)
Participant year of birth
2009 - 2011 (children)
Varied (mothers)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2009
Primary Institutions
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
National Medical Research Council (NMRC)
National Research Foundation (NRF)
Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Activity log (e.g. food, sleep, exercise)
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical environment assessment (e.g. pollution, mould)
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Wearable devices
- None
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
- Healthcare data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
