Chronic Illness and Developmental Health Trends in Children

描述（由申请人提供）：来自国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所（NICHD）早期儿童保育和青少年发展研究（SECCYD）的数据的拟议二次分析将侧重于评估慢性疾病（如哮喘）在儿童情感、发育和行为健康方面的作用。复杂的数据分析技术将用于模拟慢性疾病随时间的发展，同时将根据纵向数据模拟发育健康的趋势。考虑到各种人口、社会经济和儿童护理因素的混杂效应，慢性病对观察到的情绪、发育和行为健康趋势的影响将随着时间的推移进行评估。随着时间的推移，慢性疾病和发育健康措施的同时建模所涉及的并发症将需要统计方法的进一步发展，以最好地解决这一研究的拟议目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed secondary analysis of data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) will focus on assessing the role of chronic illness, such as asthma, on the emotional, developmental, and behavioral health of children. Sophisticated data analysis techniques will be used to model the development of chronic illnesses over time, while at the same time trends of developmental health will be modeled from the longitudinal data. Taking into account the confounding effect of various demographic, socioeconomic, and child care factors, the impact of chronic illness on the observed trends of emotional, developmental, and behavioral health over time will then be assessed. The complications involved with simultaneous modeling of both chronic illness as well as developmental health measures over time will require further advances of statistical methodologies to best address this proposed aim of the study.