Lifetime residential data collection protocol for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study

Paola Badilla; Shermaine Abad; Calen Smith; Brandon Tsui; Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez; Megan M. Herting

MethodsX (Jun 2024)

Lifetime residential data collection protocol for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study

Paola Badilla,
Shermaine Abad,
Calen Smith,
Brandon Tsui,
Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez,
Megan M. Herting

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Paola Badilla: Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Shermaine Abad: Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Calen Smith: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Brandon Tsui: Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez: Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Megan M. Herting: Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Corresponding author at: Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12
p. 102673

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Understanding the impacts of environmental exposures on health outcomes during development is an important area of research for plenty of reasons. Collecting retrospective and prospective residential history can enrich observational studies through eventual linkages to external sources. Augmenting participant health outcome data with environmental data can better inform on the role of the environment, thereby enhancing prevention and intervention efforts. However, collecting the geospatial information needed for this type of research can be difficult, especially when data are collected directly from participants. Participants’ residential histories are unique and often complex. Collecting residential history data often involves capturing precise spatial locations along specific timeframes as well as contending with recall bias and unique, complex living arrangements. When trying to assess lifetime environmental exposures, researchers must consider the many changes in location a person goes through and the timeframes in which these changes occur, ultimately creating a multidimensional and dynamic dataset. Creating data collection protocols that are feasible to administer, result in accurate data, and minimize data missingness is a major challenge to undertake. Here, we provide an overview of the protocol developed to collect the lifetime residential address information of participants in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study.

Residential address history collection for geolinking exposures

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ISSN: 2215-0161 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science
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