Research Projects Using Growing Up Data

On these pages you can search for research projects using Growing Up in New Zealand data.   We've tried to include all current and previous projects which use the data, but this list may not be exhaustive. 

Prenatal and postnatal determinants of maternal well-being
Year:
2013
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
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Vulnerable children: cumulative disadvantage in Growing Up in New Zealand
Year:
2013
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
SCONE
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Changing power relations through collaborative narrative to catalyse the potential of DOHaD for intergenerational change
Year:
2013
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
Secondary Classification:
SCONE
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Who is Growing Up in New Zealand today?
Year:
2013
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Culture and Identity
Secondary Classification:
Family and Whanau
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The influence of childcare on preschool dietary patterns, eating behaviours and childhood obesity
Year:
2013
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
The thesis proposal is to explore the role of childcare in shaping the dietary patterns and body weight of infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers.
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How do early life factors influence and protect social and emotional developmental trajectories?
Year:
2013
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
Secondary Classification:
Psych and Cog
This project will take a life-course epidemiological approach that seeks to determine and quantify the effects of multiple early-life variables on the socio-emotional developmental trajectories and outcomes of preschool aged children...
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Too many left at risk by current folic acid supplementation use in NZ: Evidence from Growing Up in NZ
Year:
2012
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
The use of folic acid during pregnancy utilising New Zealand's contemporary birth cohort study, Growing Up in New Zealand has been described.
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Neonatal vitamin D status and acute respiratory tract infections in infancy
Year:
2012
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
This thesis determined if children with poorer vitamin D status at birth are at increased risk of hospital admission for respiratory tract infections during the first year of life.
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Pregnant partners: the other parent of the Growing Up in New Zealand children
Year:
2012
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Family and Whanau
The demography, health, pregnancy behaviours, family histories, and intentions for their children, of the partners who were enrolled antenatally into Growing Up in New Zealand, New Zealand’s new birth cohort study has been described.
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Growing Up in New Zealand cohort alignment with all New Zealand births
Year:
2012
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Family and Whanau
The birth characteristics of the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort with those of all New Zealand (NZ) births over a similar time period, and the cohort alignment to current NZ births has been described.
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Now we are born
Year:
2012
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
Secondary Classification:
Culture and Identity, Education, Family and Whanau, Psych and Cog, SCONE
This report described the development of the new generation of New Zealand children from before they were born until they were nine months of age
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Adherence to MoH nutritional guidelines in pregnancy: evidence from the Growing Up in New Zealand Antenatal Wave
Year:
2012
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
The adherence to nutritional guidelines by pregnant women in New Zealand and maternal characteristics associated with adherence has been determined.
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Maternal and perinatal predictors of newborn iron status
Year:
2012
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
The iron status at birth had been described in a subsample of children enrolled in the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort and part of the cord blood study.
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Early engagement with a Lead Maternity Carer (LMC): Results from Growing Up in New Zealand
Year:
2012
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
The timeliness of lead maternity carer (LMC) engagement was described and factors associated with timely LMC engagement were identified.
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Life course determinants of food allergy in New Zealand children
Year:
2012
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
This project described the epidemiology of childhood food allergies in NZ over the past 20 years and through a qualitative study, determined what strategies are needed for a New Zealand family to cope, adapt and feel fully supported when a child is diagnosed with a food allergy.
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Cohort profile: Growing Up in New Zealand
Year:
2011
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
Secondary Classification:
Culture and Identity, Education, Family and Whanau, Psych and Cog, SCONE
The birth characteristics of the Growing Up in New Zealand cohort with those of all New Zealand (NZ) births over a similar time period has been compared, and cohort alignment to current NZ births has been described.
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Before we are born
Year:
2010
Access Type:
Internal
Primary Classification:
Health and Wellbeing
Secondary Classification:
Culture and Identity, Education, Family and Whanau, Psych and Cog, SCONE
This is the first Growing Up in New Zealand that described the new generation of children from before they were born
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