Gregory Steven, Iles-Caven Yasmin, Northstone Kate, Golding Jean
Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, BS8 2BN, UK.
Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Oct 18;8:294. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19459.2. eCollection 2023.
At the time of planning ALSPAC there was accumulating evidence that abuse and other childhood traumas were related to psychiatric problems later in life. In addition, the age at which such trauma occurred was likely to be important in influencing its long-term impact. Detailed data was therefore collected from enrolled women on traumatic events occurring during their own childhoods, along with their age at the time. The questionnaire entitled 'About Yourself' was sent out to expectant women who had enrolled in the study, which included a page in the form of a grid (an events diary) with one row per year of childhood and columns for recording where she was living at the time, who was looking after her, and any traumatic events that occurred. These free-text responses were then coded, and any events were assigned a score indicating the level of trauma the event was likely to have caused on a scale of 1 (highly traumatic) to 6 (least traumatic). This paper describes the variety of text data collected and how it was coded. The ALSPAC study has a great deal of follow-up data collected on the original respondents, as well as on their parents and grandparents, partners, offspring and their grandchildren, providing huge potential for analyses on the antecedents and outcomes of adverse childhood events across multiple generations.
在规划阿冯纵向研究父母与儿童队列（ALSPAC）时，越来越多的证据表明，虐待及其他童年创伤与日后的精神问题有关。此外，此类创伤发生时的年龄可能对其长期影响至关重要。因此，研究人员从已登记的女性那里收集了关于她们童年时期发生的创伤事件的详细数据，以及事件发生时她们的年龄。名为“关于你自己”的问卷被发送给参与该研究的孕妇，问卷中有一页是网格形式（事件日记），童年的每一年占一行，列用于记录她当时居住在哪里、谁在照顾她以及发生的任何创伤事件。然后对这些自由文本回复进行编码，任何事件都被赋予一个分数，表明该事件可能造成的创伤程度，范围从1（高度创伤）到6（最低创伤）。本文描述了所收集的各种文本数据及其编码方式。ALSPAC研究收集了大量关于原始受访者及其父母、祖父母、伴侣、后代和孙辈的随访数据，为分析多代人童年不良事件的前因后果提供了巨大潜力。
