South East London Community Health Study (SELCoH)
SELCoH is an epidemiological cohort study of psychiatric and physical morbidity in approximately 1,700 adults aged 16 years and over. The participants were randomly selected from 1,075 households in the south London boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth in 2008 and followed across three timepoints until 2016. The population of Southwark and Lambeth is highly diverse in terms of ethnicity and wealth, ensuring that the study encompassed a wide a range of health service users served by South London and Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust (SLaM).
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
1,698 (participants)
Age at first data collection
≥ 16 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
The 2011 UK Census demographic and socioeconomic indicators for the catchment area.
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2008
Primary Institutions
King's College London (KCL)
Links
kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/pm/research/selcoh/index
web.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/cda770e3-0d4d-466f-8102-c56beff04848
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity
NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre Trust
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
