Chronic Illness and Developmental Health Trends in Children

描述（由申请人提供）：对来自美国国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所（NICHD）早期儿童护理和青年发展研究（SECCYD）的数据进行的拟议二次分析将侧重于评估慢性疾病（如哮喘）对儿童情绪、发育和行为健康的作用。先进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。考虑到各种人口统计学、社会经济学和儿童保育因素的混杂效应，将评估慢性疾病对观察到的情绪、发育和行为健康趋势的影响。随着时间的推移，慢性疾病以及发育健康措施的同时建模所涉及的并发症将需要进一步的统计方法的进步，以最好地解决这一拟议的研究目标。

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.