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
Country
Year of first data collection
2018
Primary Institutions
New York University (NYU)
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
Engagement
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