The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: As We Age

描述(由申请人提供)：我们建议在最初的10,317名参与者高中毕业52年后，继续进行威斯康星州纵向研究(WLS)的家庭访谈。我们希望利用WLS的独特科学价值，对健康和老龄化中的社会、心理、生物和经济因素进行广泛的研究。在退休非制度化和个人化的背景下，新的调查和生物医学数据，以及世界劳工组织的终身数据，将解决旧的问题，并在生命过程研究和健康与老龄化政策中开辟跨学科研究的新领域。我们建议对8500名幸存下来的男性和女性进行家庭访谈，他们在1957年作为高三学生首次接受调查，并在1964年、1975年、1993年和2003-06年进行了跟踪调查；当再次联系他们时，他们将大约70岁。家庭访谈将包括计算机辅助个人访谈(CAPI)，它将更新就业和退休、工作和退休后的活动和条件、养老金覆盖范围、收入、收入、财富和经济转移的历史；对家庭结构、家庭关系和压力生活事件的衡量；健康、疾病、残疾、心理健康和疾病；与健康相关的行为；医疗保险、获得医疗保健的机会和与医疗保健系统的接触；社会和公民参与、交流关系、智力和社会参与、社会隔离；以及为临终做好医疗、法律、宗教和心理准备。此外，我们将进行身体表现评估和收集生物标记物；评估认知功能计算技能和决策；获得联邦医疗保险记录豁免；并留下自我管理的健康问卷。WLS是独一无二的，它是一项覆盖半个多世纪的对成年人及其家庭的大规模纵向研究。与过去一样，WLS数据一旦被收集、清理和记录，就会立即向研究社区发布。公共卫生相关性：威斯康星州纵向研究是独一无二的，它是一项覆盖半个多世纪的对成年人及其家人的生命历程的大规模纵向研究。它是研究以下问题的宝贵公共资源：老龄化和生命历程；代际关系；家庭关系；成年子女中的残疾和精神疾病；教育和认知能力的长期影响；职业生涯；身心健康；健康素养；认知变化；发病率和死亡率。使用这些数据的研究将侧重于个人对其投资、医疗保健、保险和其他不确定性和个人责任增加的领域做出良好选择的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to continue the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) with home interviews, 52 years after the high school graduation of the original 10,317 participants. We want to exploit the unique scientific value of the WLS to pursue a broad agenda of research on social, psychological, biological, and economic factors in health and aging. In the context of the deinstitutionalization and individualization of retirement, new survey and biomedical data, along with the life-long data of the WLS, will resolve old questions and open new areas of interdisciplinary inquiry in life course research and in health and aging policy. We propose in-home interviews of 8,500 surviving men and women who were first surveyed as seniors in high school in 1957 and were followed up in 1964, 1975, 1993, and 2003-06; they will be about 70 years old when re-contacted. The in-home interviews will include a computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) that will update histories of employment and retirement, work and post-retirement activities and conditions, pension coverage, earnings, income, wealth, and economic transfers; measures of family structure, family relations, and stressful life events; health, illness, disability, psychological well-being, and mental health and illness; health-related behaviors; health insurance, access to health care, and contacts with the health care system; social and civic participation, exchange relationships, intellectual and social engagement, and social isolation; and medical, legal, religious, and psychological preparations for the end of life. In addition, we will conduct physical performance assessments and collect biomarkers; assess cognitive functioning computing skills, and decision-making; obtain a Medicare record waiver; and leave-behind a self-administered health questionnaire. The WLS is unique as a large scale longitudinal study of adults and their families that covers more than half a century. As in the past, WLS data will be released to the research community as soon as they have been collected, cleaned, and documented. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study is unique as a large scale longitudinal study of the life course of adults and their families that covers more than half a century. It is a valuable public resource for studies of aging and the life course; intergenerational relationships; family relations; disabilities and mental illness among adult children; long-term effects of education and cognitive ability; occupational careers; physical and mental well-being; health literacy; cognitive change; and morbidity and mortality. Research using these data will focus on the capacity of individuals to make good choices about their investments, medical care, insurance, and other domains of increased uncertainty and personal responsibility.