Wirral Child Health and Development Study (First Steps)

Measures describe a question asked to a participant during a survey or an item of information requested from a manager when they fill out a data return. For example, ‘Who do you live with?’ is a measure and the possible responses might be, mother, father, brother, sister etc.

Question/Data item wording	Response scale wording	Need OR provision OR receipt	Description of measure	Start Year	Age of interest	Age from	Age to	Informant	Multiple rater	Reporting term	Sweep title	Standard instrument	Dataset
Are you receiving any benefits?	1 Income Support 2 Disability Living All 3 Carer’s All 4 Incapacity Be 5 New Deal 6 Council Tax Ben 7 Job Seekers All 8 Tax Credits 9 Housing Ben 10 Other (please give details below)	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2007	0-1	0	1	Participant	No	Current	Phase 1	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving any benefits now?	1 Income Support 2 Tax Credits 3 Carers Allowance 4 Child Benefit 5 Incapacity Benefit 6 New Deal 7 Council Tax Benefit 8 Other (please give details below) More details 9 Job Seekers Allowance 10 Disability Living Allowance 11 Housing Benefit	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2008	1-2	1	2	Participant	No	Current	Phase 7 & 8	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving any benefits now?	1 Income Support 2 Tax Credits 3 Carers Allowance 4 Child Benefit 5 Incapacity Benefit 6 New Deal 7 Council Tax Benefit 8 Other (please give details below) More details 9 Job Seekers Allowance 10 Disability Living Allowance 11 Housing Benefit	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2010	2-4	2	4	Participant	No	Current	Phase 9	No	WCHADS
Do you receive the following benefit?	income support 1 disability living allowance DLA 2 carer’s all 3 council tax benefit 6 job seekers all JSA 7 housing benefit 9 child benefit 11 child tax credit 12 attendance allowance 13 working tax credits 14 healthy start 15 Employment and support allowance 16 Incapacity Benefit 17 Statutory Maternity pay 18 Maternity Allowance 19	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2012	4-6	4	6	Participant	No	Current	Phase 12	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving any benefits?	Income Support 1 Disability Living Allowance DLA 2 Carer’s Allowance 3 Council Tax Benefit 6 Job seekers all JSA 7 Housing Benefit 9 Child Benefit 11 Child Tax Credit 12 Attendance Allowance 13 Working Tax Credits 14	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2011	3-4	3	4	Participant	No	Current	Phase 10	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving Carer’s Allowance?	Yes No	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2015	7-8	7	8	Participant	No	Current	Phase 13	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP) (Previously Disability Living Allowance)?	Yes No	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2015	7-8	7	8	Participant	No	Current	Phase 13	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving Carer’s Allowance?	Yes No	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2016	9-10	9	10	Participant	No	Current	Phase 14	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP) (Previously Disability Living Allowance)?	Yes No	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2016	9-10	9	10	Participant	No	Current	Phase 14	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving Incapacity Benefit?	Yes No	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2016	9-10	9	10	Participant	No	Current	Phase 14	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving Carer’s Allowance?	Yes No	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2019	12-13	12	13	Participant	No	Current	Phase 15	No	WCHADS
Are you receiving Personal Independence Payment (PIP) (Previously Disability Living Allowance)?	Yes No	Receipt;	Receipt of care-related benefits	2019	12-13	12	13	Participant	No	Current	Phase 15	No	WCHADS

England

Aims

The Wirral Child Health and Development Study is a prospective epidemiological longitudinal study starting in pregnancy established in 2007 to identify early social, emotional and biological risks and processes involved in the development of childhood conduct problems. The study was designed to identify pathways to antisocial outcomes that might require differing treatment responses and to identify pathways to childhood emotional problems. Moving into adolescence, the WCHADS team are interested in additional factors important for child and adolescent mental health, including social media experiences, friendships, bullying, risky behaviours and physical, hormonal and psychological changes associated with puberty.

Institution

Institute of Life & Human Sciences, University of Liverpool

Geographic coverage - Nations

Wirral;

Start date

2007

Minimum age at recruitment

Sample Size

1,233

Sample

Study design

Pregnancy cohort

Sample details

WCHADS recruited a sample mothers and infants. A larger (‘extensive’) general population sample was used to provide a stratified simple random subsample (the ‘intensive’ sample), with both followed in tandem. Participants were identified from first-time mothers aged 18 years and above who booked for antenatal care at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital at 12 weeks gestation between February 2007 and October 2008. The clinic was the sole provider of universal prenatal care on the Wirral Peninsula. The study was introduced to the women by clinic midwives who asked for their agreement to be approached by study midwives at their 20-week scan. The extensive sample of 1,233 women pregnant with their first child was recruited at 20 weeks of pregnancy and subsequently had a live singleton baby. Owing to the socio-demographic composition of the Wirral, 41.7% of the sample were in the most deprived quintile of deprivation at recruitment and the sample has with low numbers from ethnic minority backgrounds.

Sex

All

Sample Characteristics

Birth cohort

Sample size at most recent sweep

1233

Individual data available (e.g. upon special request)?

Data Access Level

Restricted access only (application required)

Data Access

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/iphs/researchgroups/firststeps/WCHADS_Data_Access_Policy_v3_2018-10-15_FINAL.pdf

Regional variable present?

Yes

Local Authority variable present?

Yes

Complementary Data

Genetic/genomic data
Linked administrative data
Observational/qualitative data

Genetic Data Collected

Yes

Linked Data

Education data Environmental data Health data

HDR UK Innovation Gateway

Website

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/institute-of-life-and-human-sciences/schools-and-departments/department-of-psychological-sciences/research/first-steps/about

Notes

Related Measures

Study Code

WCHADS

Reference paper(s)

Sharp, H et al. (2015). Maternal antenatal anxiety, postnatal stroking and emotional problems in children: outcomes predicted from pre- and postnatal programming hypotheses. Psychological Medicine, 45, 269-283.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291714001342

Funders

MRC

Catalogue of Social Care Data

UNITING SOCIAL CARE DATA