Kids, Families and Places (KFP)
KFP was a birth cohort study examining biological and social influences on the socioemotional development of children born between 2006 and 2008 in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. The initial cohort included over 650 families with a newborn and at least one older sibling aged 16 years or less, recruited through a program run by Toronto and Hamilton Public Health. Of the initial cohort, 501 families with a newborn child and an older child (sibling) aged 4 years or less participated in the Intensive component of the study (IKFP) and were followed up 4 times, when the child was approximately 2 months, 18 months, 3 years, and 4.5 years.
Study design
Cohort - primary caregiver and child, Cohort, Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
668 (children)
911 (siblings)
668 (mothers)
Age at first data collection
2 months (children)
1 - 16 years (siblings)
Varied (mothers)
Participant year of birth
2006 - 2008 (children)
Varied (siblings)
Varied (mothers)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2006
Primary Institutions
University of Toronto
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR, Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada, IRSC)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Audio or visual recordings (e.g. of child behaviour, facial expressions)
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- Ethnography or participant observation
- None
- Census data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
