Table 1.
Summary of constructs and assessments points for the cohort
| Constructs | Measured/assessed | Antenatal | Postnatal | ||||
| Baseline | 3 months | 6 months | 12 months | 24 months | 36 months | ||
| Maternal constructs | |||||||
| Sociodemographics | Age, education, household structure, household assets household roster, occupation, economic shocks and debt | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Psychosocial | Perinatal depression | · | · | · | · | · | |
| Perceived stress | · | · | · | · | · | · | |
| Social support, instrumental and emotional | · | · | · | · | · | · | |
| Decision-making, autonomy and self-efficacy | · | · | · | · | |||
| Disability/function | · | · | · | · | · | · | |
| Intimate partner violence | · | · | · | · | |||
| Physical health | Height, weight, waist circumference, blood pressure | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Previous pregnancies, still births and miscarriage history | · | · | · | · | · | · | |
| Family planning/contraception use | · | · | · | · | · | ||
| Other constructs of interest | Family history of mental illness and substance use | · | |||||
| Religiosity | · | ||||||
| Understanding and executive function | · | ||||||
| Life satisfaction | · | · | |||||
| Significant life events | · | · | · | ||||
| Health services utilisation (maternal and child) | · | · | · | · | |||
| Risk taking | · | · | |||||
| Adverse childhood experiences | · | ||||||
| Parental bonding | · | ||||||
| Child constructs | |||||||
| Child nutrition and care | Breastfeeding and child nutrition | · | · | · | · | · | |
| Beliefs, practices, investment and expectations about children | · | · | · | · | · | ||
| Immunisation | · | · | · | ||||
| Child interaction | Father and household involvement in parenting and childcare | · | · | · | · | ||
| Home environment for child rearing/parenting | · | · | · | ||||
| Postnatal attachment | · | · | |||||
| Mother–child interaction | · | · | · | ||||
| Child health and development | Weight, length/height and head circumference | · | · | · | · | · | |
| Acute illness history | · | · | · | ||||
| Socioemotional development | · | · | · | · | |||
| Cognitive development | · | · | |||||
| Maternal and child biomarkers (subsample) | |||||||
| Hormone | Hair steroid hormones (mother) | · | |||||
| Hair steroid hormones (child) | · | ||||||
| Genetic | DNA (mother) | · | · | ||||
| DNA (child) | · | ||||||