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National Children's Study 2014 - An Assessment (Paperback)
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The National Children's Study (NCS) was authorized by the
Children's Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a
dedicated Program Office in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The NCS is
planned to be a longitudinal observational birth cohort study to
evaluate the effects of chronic and intermittent exposures on child
health and development in the U.S.. The NCS would be the first
study to collect a broad range of environmental exposure measures
for a national probability sample of about 100,000 children,
followed from birth or before birth to age 21. Detailed plans for
the NCS were developed by 2007 and reviewed by a National Research
Council / Institute of Medicine panel. At that time, sample
recruitment for the NCS Main Study was scheduled to begin in 2009
and to be completed within about 5 years. However, results from the
initial seven pilot locations, which recruited sample cases in
2009-2010, indicated that the proposed household-based recruitment
approach would be more costly and time consuming than planned. In
response, the Program Office implemented a number of pilot tests in
2011 to evaluate alternative recruitment methods and pilot testing
continues to date. At the request of Congress, The National
Children's Study 2014 reviews the revised study design and proposed
methodologies for the NCS Main Study. This report assesses the
study's plan to determine whether it is likely to produce
scientifically sound results that are generalizable to the United
States population and appropriate subpopulations. The report makes
recommendations about the overall study framework, sample design,
timing, content and need for scientific expertise and oversight.
The National Children's Study has the potential to add immeasurably
to scientific knowledge about the impact of environmental
exposures, broadly defined, on children\'s health and development
in the United States. The recommendations of this report will help
the NCS will achieve its intended objective to examine the effects
of environmental influences on the health and development of
American children.
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