LifeCourse A Melbourne Children's Research Initiative

COBRA: Other health information

Relevant LifeCourse Constructs	Year	2009-Ongoing	2009-Ongoing
	Phase	Baseline	Clinic Visit
	Age	2-18 years	2-18 years
	N	in progress	in progress
Activity of daily living				P:PedsQL 4.0 ^I S:PedsQL 4.0 ^I S:MARCA ^I
Family history of diabetes mellitus			P:COBRA ^M ¹ P:COBRA ^F ¹ P:COBRA ^Si ¹ P:COBRA ^G ¹
Family medical history			P:COBRA ^M ¹ P:COBRA ^F ¹ P:COBRA ^Si ¹ P:COBRA ^G ¹
Medical diagnosis			P:COBRA ^I
Medical history			P:COBRA ^I	P:COBRA ^I R:H-R ^I
Physical health problems			P:COBRA ^I S:COBRA ^I	O:COBRA ^I P:STU ^I S:SMU ^I
Skin				O:COBRA ^I

Featured measurements

COBRA: : Childhood Overweight BioRepository of Australia Study-devised measure
H-R: : Hospital Records
MARCA: : Multimedia Activity Recall for Children and Adolescents
PedsQL 4.0: : Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory – 4.0 Generic Core Scales
SMU: : Sizing Me Up measure
STU: : Sizing Them Up measure

Notes

Developed in collaboration with the Shared Care Obesity Trial in Children (HopSCOTCH)

Legend

B: = Biosample collected
BA: = Biosample analysis
G: = Grandparent(s) completed questionnaire
L: = Data linkage
N: = Nurse completed questionnaire
O: = Observation or direct assessment
Of: = Offspring completed questionnaire
P: = Parent/guardian completed questionnaire
Pe: = Peer completed questionnaire
R: = Records abstraction
S: = Self (primary participant) completed questionnaire
T: = Teacher completed questionnaire
X: = Other source
X ^F: = Pertains to father
X ^Fam: = Pertains to family
X ^G: = Pertains to grandparent(s)
X ^I: = Pertains to primary participant
X ^IP: = Pertains to partner
X ^M: = Pertains to mother
X ^O: = Pertains to offspring
X ^P: = Pertains to parent/guardian(s)
X ^Pe: = Pertains to peers
X ^Si: = Pertains to sibling(s)
X ^T: = Pertains to teacher(s)
X ^X: = Pertains to other reportees

Metadata presented by LifeCourse provides a crucial first step in understanding the available data across studies. It does not take the place of detailed study documentation, which should always be consulted during design and analysis.