Add Health
Cohort type
General population-based cohort
Disease
Participant type
No diagnosis
Profile
The original purpose of the Add Health study was to help understand the causes of adolescent health and health behaviour with special emphasis on the effects of multiple contexts of adolescent life.
The cohort was then followed through their transition to adulthood and research turned to understanding the determinants and consequences of developmental and health trajectories from adolescence into adulthood.
Add Health combines longitudinal survey data on respondents social, economic, psychological and physical well-being with contextual data on the family, neighbourhood, community, school, friendships, peer groups, and romantic relationships, providing unique opportunities to study how social environments and behaviours in adolescence are linked to health and achievement outcomes in young adulthood. The fourth wave of interviews expanded the collection of biological data in Add Health to understand the social, behavioural, and biological linkages in health trajectories as the Add Health cohort ages through adulthood, and the fifth wave of data collection continues this biological data expansion (2016-2018).
Last update – 03/02/2017
Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 8120
206 West Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS
National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institute of Nursing Research
National Institute on Aging
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Science Foundation
Office of AIDS Research, NIH
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH
Office of the Director, NIH
Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS
Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science, DHHS
Office of Population Affairs, DHHS
Office of Research on Women's Health, NIH
MacArthur Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation