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Stress, Home Environment, Language & Learning Study (SHELL)
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The SHELL study was designed to investigate how caregiver stress and the home environment in early life affect the trajectory of language and cognitive development of infants during the first two years of life. Beginning in 2018, the study recruited 100 newborn babies and their primary caregivers from the New York City area in New York State, United States of America. Participating babies completed data collection at 3, 9 and 15 months.

Study design
Cohort, Cohort - primary caregiver and child

Number of participants at first data collection

100 (babies)

100 (caregivers)

Age at first data collection

3 months (babies)

Varied (caregivers)

Participant year of birth

2018 - 2020 (babies)

Varied (caregivers)

Participant sex
All

Representative sample at baseline?
No

Sample features

Caregivers
Newborns, infants and babies
Dataset details

Country

United States of America

Year of first data collection

2018

Primary Institutions

New York University (NYU)

Links

britobabylab.com/shell-study/

doi.org/10.1002/dev.22325

doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101015

doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101807

Profile paper DOI
Not available

Funders

CIFAR

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC)

Ongoing?
No

Data types collected

neuroImagingData
mentalHealthData
Quantitative data collection
  • 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 – phone
  • Physical environment assessment (e.g. pollution, mould)
  • Self-report questionnaire – unspecified
Qualitative data collection
  • None
Neuroimaging data collection
  • Electroencephalography (EEG)
Linked or secondary data
  • None
Features

Engagement

  • Community engagement
  • Keywords

    Biological samples/biospecimens
    Cognitive assessments
    Early-life determinants
    Learning
    Memory
    Neuroimaging
    Paediatric development
    Parental mental health
    Stress
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