Table 3.

Data collected from the SMILE birth cohort sample from birth (baseline) to 7 years of age (wave 6)

Items	Waves
	Baseline	1	2	3	4	5	6
		3 months	6 months	12 months	24 months	5 years	7 years
Family
SES (income, education, Indigenous status)	+			+	+	+	+
Residential location	+			+	+	+	+
Area-level SES	+			+	+	+	+
Household composition	+			+	+	+	+
Partner health behaviours
Mother
Mother health	+	+			+	+	+
Antenatal care	+
Self-rated oral and general health			+		+	+	+
Dental visiting pattern	+			+	+	+	+
Mother health behaviours	+		+		+	+	+
Physical activities					+	+	+
Stress and coping		+			+	+	+
Dental examination (caries, periodontal diseases)					+	+	+
Anthropometrics	+				+	+	+
Smoking and alcohol use	+			+		+	+
Social support				+		+	+
Child
Birth events	+
Birth weight/length	+
Breastfeeding		+	+	+	+
Infant feeding practices		+	+	+	+
Solid foods			+	+	+
Infant feeding aids		+	+	+	+
Water consumption				+	+	+	+
24 hours recall and dietary diary (1+2 days)				+
Food Frequency Questionnaire					+	+	+
Infant/child health	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Medications		+	+	+	+	+	+
Tooth cleaning/brushing			+	+	+	+	+
Toothpaste use				+	+	+	+
Dental visiting pattern				+	+	+	+
Physical activities					+	+	+
Stress and coping							+
Oral health-related quality of life						+	+
Dental examination (caries, oral hygiene status, developmental conditions, dental fluorosis)					+	+	+
Anthropometrics*					+	+	+
Saliva and plaque						+	+
Fluoride from exfoliated teeth							+

An 89-item FFQ collects information on 29 food/drink groups at the wave 24 months. Data are being collected for the wave age-5 year using a 106-item FFQ.

Height and weight measured during physical assessment.

FFQ, Food Frequency Questionnaire; SES, socioeconomics status; SMILE, Study of Mothers’ and Infants’ Life Events Affecting Oral Health.