Hudak Mark L, Park Christina H, Annett Robert D, Hale Daniel E, McGovern Patricia M, McLaughlin Thomas J, Dole Nancy, Kaar Jill L, Balsam Marion J
Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida;
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland;
Pediatrics. 2016 Jun;137 Suppl 4(Suppl 4):S213-8. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-4410B.
The National Children's Study (NCS) was an ambitious attempt to map children's health and development in a large representative group of children in the United States. In this introduction, we briefly review the background of the NCS and the history of the multiple strategies that were tested to recruit women and children. Subsequent articles then detail the protocols and outcomes of 4 of the recruitment strategies. It is hoped that lessons learned from these attempts to define a study protocol that could achieve the initial aims of the NCS will inform future efforts to conceptualize and execute strategies to provide generalizable insights on the longitudinal health of our nation's children.
国家儿童研究(NCS)是一项雄心勃勃的尝试,旨在描绘美国一大群具有代表性儿童的健康与发育状况。在本引言中,我们简要回顾NCS的背景以及为招募妇女和儿童而测试的多种策略的历史。随后的文章详细阐述了其中4种招募策略的方案和结果。希望从这些为确定一项能够实现NCS初始目标的研究方案所做的尝试中吸取的经验教训,能为未来构思和实施相关策略提供参考,以便对我国儿童的纵向健康状况得出可推广的见解。