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. 2014 Jan 17;14:49. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-49

Table 2.

Measures collected at baseline from young people

Domain/question topic Purpose Measure/source
Personal information
Gender, school year, age, DOB, place of birth, ethnicity and cohabitants
DE
Adapted from general household survey [61]
Family affluence
DE
Family affluence scale [62,63]
Substance use
Ever smoked?
CV
One question from substance initiation index [29]
Smoking status
CV
ASSIST study version of NatCen/NFER question [64]
Ever drunk a drink?
CV
NatCen/NFER [65]
Age of first drink?
CV
NatCen/NFER [65]
Frequency of drinking
CV
NatCen/NFER [65]
Ever little drunk?
CV
Adapted from HBSC questionnaire
Little drunk in last 3 months?
CV
Adapted from HBSC questionnaire
Ever really drunk?
CV
Adapted from HBSC questionnaire
Really drunk in last 3 months?
CV
Adapted from HBSC questionnaire
Ever taken drugs
CV
Adapted from HBSC / NatCen/NFER
Behaviour
Strengths and difficulties
CV
SDQ [66]
Aggressive and destructive conduct
CV
From Spoth, et al. [28]
Life at home
Things in your bedroom
CV
Adapted from young people, new media survey [67,68]
TV, computer games, computer use
CV
From HBSC questionnaire
Free time activities
CV
Modified questions from west of Scotland twenty-07 study
Family functioning
CV
Family relationship index [69,70]
Parenting/child management
CV
General child management, project family [71,72]
Parents and school
CV
Three questions, one of which is adapted from the child rearing practices measure
Family activities
CV
From HBSC questionnaire/PEACH study
General health
Sleep – difficulties
CV
From HBSC questionnaire
Getting up/bedtimes
CV
From PEACH study
Health state today
CV, HE
EQ-5D [73]
General health CV Kidscreen 27 [74]

Key: CV = Covariate; HE = Health Economics; DE = Demographics; IO = Immediate outcome; ST = Short term outcome; PO = Primary outcome; SO = Secondary outcome; TO = Tertiary outcome.