Faculty of Education and Psychology and History of Sciences and Ideas, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
History of Sciences and Ideas, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2023 Dec;82(1):2278815. doi: 10.1080/22423982.2023.2278815. Epub 2023 Nov 27.
This systematic review (a) identifies birth cohort studies (BCSs) established in the Nordic countries, (b) describes their basic characteristics, and (c) explores how these characteristics have evolved over time, discussing their implications to knowledge production. To identify Nordic BCSs, cohort databases and relevant scientific articles were systematically searched and screened.The review shows that since 1959, more than 600,000 index children have participated in the 79 Nordic BCSs (22 Danish, 20 Finnish, 12 Norwegian, 24 Swedish, one Icelandic), over half of them still ongoing. The Nordic BCSs cover a wide geographical area including the Nordic Arctic. The topics of BCSs have varied over time but most have focused on examining the developmental origins of diseases. A quarter of them had a general scope, while the rest started with a specific focus, commonly atopic diseases. All BCSs collected questionnaire and/or interview data and over 60% of the BCSs announced exclusion criteria for participants, typically insufficient language proficiency.NBCSs have produced crucial scientific knowledge for over six decades, but there are underutilised opportunities including systematic interdisciplinary collaboration, inclusion of children's own views of their health and well-being, intergenerational data collection, and specific knowledge of Arctic indigenous peoples and other minorities.
(a) 确定了在北欧国家建立的出生队列研究（BCS）；(b) 描述了它们的基本特征；(c) 探讨了这些特征随时间的演变，并讨论了它们对知识生产的影响。为了确定北欧 BCS，系统地搜索和筛选了队列数据库和相关科学文章。综述显示，自 1959 年以来，超过 60 万名索引儿童参与了 79 项北欧 BCS（22 项丹麦、20 项芬兰、12 项挪威、24 项瑞典、1 项冰岛），其中一半以上仍在进行中。北欧 BCS 涵盖了广泛的地理区域，包括北欧北极地区。BCS 的主题随时间而变化，但大多数都集中在研究疾病的发育起源上。其中四分之一的研究具有广泛的范围，其余的研究则从特定的焦点开始，通常是特应性疾病。所有 BCS 都收集了问卷调查和/或访谈数据，超过 60%的 BCS 宣布了参与者的排除标准，通常是语言能力不足。北欧 BCS 六十多年来产生了至关重要的科学知识，但仍有一些未被充分利用的机会，包括系统的跨学科合作、纳入儿童对自己健康和幸福的看法、代际数据收集，以及对北极土著民族和其他少数民族的特定知识。
