Resilience, Ethnicity, and AdolesCent Mental Health (REACH)
REACH is an accelerated cohort study that comprises 4,353 adolescents in years 7 to 9 of school who were recruited from 12 mainstream secondary schools in London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, United Kingdom. The cohorts were recruited and first assessed at age 11 to 12 years (cohort 1, school year 7), 12 to 13 years (cohort 2, school year 8) and 13 to 14 years (cohort 3, school year 9). A sub-sample of around 180 from each cohort (total, around 540) were also recruited to complete more detailed interviews and assessments and provide biological samples at sweeps one and two.
Study design
Cohort - accelerated, Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
4,353 (participants)
Age at first data collection
11 - 14 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
2002 - 2005 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2016
Primary Institutions
King's College London (KCL)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
European Research Council (ERC)
United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- 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 – online
- Creative, arts-based and visual methods
- None
- Education data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
