The Millennium Cohort Study: the making of a multi-purpose resource for social science and policy

Joshi, Heather; Fitzsimons, Emla

doi:10.14301/llcs.v7i4.410

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“…Our sample was drawn from the MCS, a cohort study of children born between 1/9/2000 and 31/8/2001 (England & Wales), or between 23/11/2000 and 11/01/2002 (Scotland and Northern Ireland) (Joshi & Fitzsimons, ). MCS children were followed from around 9 months to around 3, 5, 7, 11, and 14 years.…”

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The role of neighbourhood greenspace in children's spatial working memory

Flouri

Papachristou

Midouhas

2018

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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The role of neighbourhood greenspace in children's spatial working memory

Flouri

Papachristou

Midouhas

2018

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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“…Social and behavioral development is measured via parental reports. For more information, see Connelly and Platt, 2014 and Joshi & Fitzsimons, 2016.…”

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Poverty dynamics and parental mental health: Determinants of childhood mental health in the UK

Fitzsimons

Goodman

Kelly

et al. 2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Using data from the British Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), an ongoing longitudinal study of a cohort of 18,827 children born in the UK in 2000–2001, we investigate important correlates of mental health issues during childhood. MCS respondents were sampled at birth, at age 9 months, and then when they were 3, 5, 7 and 11 years old. Each sweep contains detailed information on the family’s SES, parenting activities, developmental indicators, parental relationship status, and indicators of parental mental health. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the related Rutter scale were used to identify behavioral and emotional problems in children. In this paper, childhood problems are separated into four domains: hyperactivity, emotional symptoms, conduct problems, and peer problems. We focus on two aspects of this relationship at ages 5 and 11 – the role of temporary and persistent poverty and the role of temporary and persistent mental health problems of mothers and fathers. At ages 11 and 5, without other controls in the model, persistent and transitory poverty have strong estimated associations with all four domains, with somewhat stronger estimated effects for persistent poverty. After a set of controls are added, we document that both persistent levels of poverty and transitions into poverty are strongly associated with levels of and transitions into childhood mental health problems. Similarly, sustained levels and transitions into mothers’ mental health problems are strongly associated with levels and transitions into children’s mental health problems. This is much less so for fathers.

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“…The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is an ongoing representative study of 18,552 families and 18,818 children born in England and Wales between September 2000and August 2001, and in Scotland and Northern Ireland between November 2000and January 2002(Joshi & Fitzsimons, 2016. Children were identified through government child benefit records and recruited when they were around 9 to 11 months old.…”

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Risk taking to obtain reward: gender differences and associations with emotional and depressive symptoms in a nationally representative cohort of UK adolescents

Lewis

Srinivasam

Roiser

et al. 2019

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Background: Large population-based studies of neuropsychological factors that characterize or precede depressive symptoms are rare and we know little about gender differences in these associations. Methods:The Millennium Cohort is a representative UK birth cohort of children born between 2000 and 2002. The Cambridge Gambling Task (CGT) was completed at ages 11 (n=12,355) and 14 (n=10,578). Our main exposure was proportion of points gambled, when odds of winning were above chance (risk taking to obtain reward). We also examined how much adolescents adjusted bets as odds of winning increased (risk adjustment). Outcomes were emotional symptoms at age 11 (SDQ) and depressive symptoms at age 14 (sMFQ). We calculated cross-sectional associations, and a longitudinal association from age 11 to 14, using linear regressions before and after adjusting for confounders.Results: Females were less risk taking than males (e.g. females bet 9.22, 95% CI 8.65 to 9.80, percentage points lower at age 11). In univariable models there were cross-sectional associations between risk taking and emotional (age 11) or depressive (age 14) symptoms (e.g. at age 14, a 20-percentage point increase in risk taking was associated with a 0.52 reduction in sMFQ points, 95% CI -.71 to -.33). However, cross-sectional associations were explained by gender differences (at age 14 the association adjusted for gender was: .05, 95% CI -.15 to .25). Longitudinally, there was weak evidence of an association between risk taking and depressive symptoms in females only (a 20-point increase in risk taking at age 11 was associated with a reduction of 0.31 sMFQ points at age 14 (95% CI -.60 to -.02). Conclusions:We found evidence that adolescent females were less likely to take risks than adolescent males. There was no strong evidence of an association between risk taking and emotional and depressive symptoms, after accounting for gender.

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The Millennium Cohort Study: the making of a multi-purpose resource for social science and policy

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Cited by 131 publications

References 46 publications

The role of neighbourhood greenspace in children's spatial working memory

The role of neighbourhood greenspace in children's spatial working memory

Poverty dynamics and parental mental health: Determinants of childhood mental health in the UK

Risk taking to obtain reward: gender differences and associations with emotional and depressive symptoms in a nationally representative cohort of UK adolescents

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