Table 2.
Main categories of variables collected in the most recent follow-up visits, Pelotas 1993 Birth Cohort Study
| Instrument | Variables |
|---|---|
| Interview | School achievement; employment and salary; family composition; family income; bone fractures; self-perceived health; self-perception of oral health; body image; injuries; nicotine consumption including cigarette smoking; alcohol intake; physical activity; morbidity history and hospitalizations; use of health services and of medicines; offspring (date of birth, birthweight, breastfeeding duration, delivery, number of children); marital status; assessment of relationship with partner; head injury; restless legs syndrome; sleep problems and drowsiness; parental morbidity and mortality; body pain; headaches; use of social media; wheezing and asthma; health insurance; common mental disorders (Self-Reporting Questionnaire, SRQ-20) |
| Confidential | Stressful life events; violence (suffered and perpetrated); illicit drug use; use of contraceptive methods; history of abortions; number of sexual partners |
| Self-reported | Food frequency; facial expression recognition task (Brazilian version) |
| Psychological interview (test) | Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.): major depressive episode, suicide attempt, bipolar, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress, antisocial personality; Digit Span (subtest WAIS-III); DSM-5 Self-Rated Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom; Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-R); Well-being (Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale, WEMBWS) |
| Physical examinations | Weight, height, BMI, sitting height; waist circumference; whole-body three-dimensional photonic scanning (3D photonic scanner); blood pressure; blood samples; aortic pulse wave velocity, dynamometry, accelerometry; spirometry; diffusing capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide; dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA Lunar Prodigy): fat mass, free fat mass, bone density and content; air displacement plethysmography (BodPod): fat mass, lean mass |