Chronic Illness and Developmental Health Trends in Children

描述(由申请人提供)：拟对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)的数据进行二次分析，重点评估慢性疾病(如哮喘)对儿童情绪、发育和行为健康的作用。将使用复杂的数据分析技术来模拟慢性病随时间的发展，同时将根据纵向数据模拟发展健康的趋势。考虑到各种人口、社会经济和儿童保育因素的混杂影响，随后将评估慢性病对观察到的情绪、发育和行为健康随时间的趋势的影响。随着时间的推移，同时对慢性病和发育健康措施进行建模所涉及的复杂性将需要统计方法的进一步进步，以最好地实现这项研究的这一拟议目标。

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.