Table 2 cVEDA sample characterisation: Assessment domains, tools& protocols
Assessment domain | Questionnaires | 6–11 years | 12–17 years | 18–23 years | Follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Socio-demographic information | Socio-demographic questionnaire [89] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Migration questionnaire [90] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Exposures questionnaires | Environmental exposures questionnaire [91] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Adverse childhoodexperiences – International questionnaire [37] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale [92] | |||||
Short food questionnaire (modified Food Frequency Questionnaire) [93] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Pregnancy History Instrument – Revised [94] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Indian Family Violence and Control Scale [95] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Mobile use questionnaire (Self-report) [96] | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Mobile use questionnaire (Parent-report) –from the SCAMP study (https://www.scampstudy.org) | ✓ | ||||
Life Events Questionnaire [97] | ✓ | ||||
Questions on urbanicity (devised to explore all places a participant has successively resided at) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Parenting | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Adolescent attachment questionnaire [100] | ✓ | ||||
Parental bonding instrument [101] | ✓ | ||||
Temperament | Childhoodbehavior questionnaire [102] | ✓ | |||
Early adolescent temperament questionnaire [103] | ✓ | ||||
Adult temperament questionnaire [104] | ✓ | ||||
Big Five Personality inventory [105] | ✓ | ||||
Strengths & difficulties questionnaire – Parent [106] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Strengths & difficulties questionnaire – Child [107] | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Strengths & difficulties questionnaire – Self-report [107] | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Psychiatric morbidity | MINI-KID [108] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
MINI-5 [109] | ✓ | ✓ | |||
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
ASRS – ADHD [114] | ✓ | ||||
Family history | Family history questionnaire (clinical assessment for presence of medical and/or psychiatric disorders in first-degree relatives of the participant) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Medical history | Medical problems questionnaire (clinical assessment for presence of medical disorders in the participant) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Puberty | PubertalDevelopmentScale [115] | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Neuropsychological assessment | Psychology Experiment Building Language (PEBL)[96] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
 Digit span test – forward and reverse | |||||
 Corsi block test – forward and reverse | |||||
 Now or later test | |||||
 Trail making test | |||||
 Sort the cards | |||||
 Stop signal task [122] | |||||
Balloon analogue risk task [121] | |||||
Emotion recognition task | |||||
Social Cognition Rating Tool in the Indian Setting [116] | |||||
Anthropometry | Height | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Weight | |||||
Mid arm circumference | |||||
Leg length | |||||
Head circumference | |||||
Neuroimaging | Structural MRI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
 T1-weighted, 3D magnetization prepared gradient echo sequence (MPRAGE) based on the ADNI protocol (http://www.loni.ucla.edu/ADNI/Cores/index.shtml): | |||||
 T2 weighted fast- (turbo-) spin echo | |||||
 FLAIR scans | |||||
Diffusion MRI | |||||
 Single-shot spin-echo EPI sequence | |||||
  Single acquisition session | |||||
  Acquisition repeated with reversed blips | |||||
Resting state functional MRI BOLD functional images acquired with a gradient- echoplanar imaging (EPI) sequence, using a relatively short echo-time to optimize reliable imaging of subcortical areas. | |||||
Toxicology | Urinary volatile organic compounds | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Solid phase extraction followed by High Performance Liquid Chromatography. | |||||
Urinary Arsenic | |||||
Flow injection system by Atomic | |||||
Absorption Spectrometer (PerkinElmer AA800, USA) | |||||
Plasma lead | |||||
Transversely-heated graphite furnace and Zeeman background correctionusing Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (PerkinElmer AA800, USA) |