Mauritius Child Health Project
The Mauritius Child Health Project has followed a birth cohort of over 1,750 participants born across 1969 - 1970 from the island nation of Mauritius for over 40 years. Participants were recruited from vaccination records across 2 major towns in a densely populated part of the mid-west of the island: Quatre Bornes and Vacoas. Initial data collection took place when participants were 3 years old, with follow up data collected at ages 8, 11, 17, 23, 28, 35, and 40 years old. Data has also been collected from the parents and offspring of the birth cohort at several time points alongside the cohort members.
Study design
Cohort - intergenerational, Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
1,795 (participants)
Age at first data collection
3 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
1969 - 1970 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
The ethnicities in the Mauritius general population as of 1972.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1972
Primary Institutions
University of Mauritius (Université de Maurice, UoM)
University of Southern California (USC)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Danish International Aid Organization (now known as Danish International Development Agency, DANIDA)
Danish State Department for Technical Collaboration with Developing Counties
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Ford Foundation
Government of Mauritius
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 or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Ethnography or participant observation
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Healthcare data
- Medical birth registry
- Police & judicial system data
Engagement
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