tailieunhanh - NASCITA Italian birth cohort study: A study protocol

Young children’s healthy development depends on nurturing care, which ensures health, nutrition, responsive caregiving, safety and security, and early learning. Infancy and childhood are characterized by rapid growth and development, and these two factors contribute largely to determining health status and well-being across the lifespan. | Pansieri et al. BMC Pediatrics 2020 20 80 https s12887-020-1961-1 STUDY PROTOCOL Open Access Check for updates NASCITA Italian birth cohort study a study protocol 1 I 1 A 1 1 I 110 1 A A I 1 7 . . 1 A A f f- 1 1 n I A A I 1 Claudia Pansieri Antonio Clavenna Chiara Pandolfini Michele Zanetti Maria Grazia Calati Daniela Miglio Massimo Cartabia1 Federica Zanetto2 and Maurizio Bonati1 Abstract Background Young children s healthy development depends on nurturing care which ensures health nutrition responsive caregiving safety and security and early learning. Infancy and childhood are characterized by rapid growth and development and these two factors contribute largely to determining health status and well-being across the lifespan. Identification of modifiable risk factors and prognostic factors during the critical periods of life will contribute to the development of effective prevention and intervention strategies. The NASCITA NAscere e creSCere in ITAlia study was created to evaluate physical cognitive and psychological development health status and health resource utilization during the first six years of life in a cohort of newborns and to evaluate potential associated factors. Methods NASCITA is an ongoing dynamic prospective population-based birth cohort study of an expected number of more than 5000 newborns who will be recruited in 22 national geographic clusters starting in 2019. It was designed to follow children from birth to school entry age for a wide range of determinants disorders and diseases. Recruitment of the newborns and their parents will take place during the first routine well-child visit which takes place at the office of the pediatrician assigned to them by the local health unit of residence and which is scheduled for all newborns born in Italy within the first 45 days of their life. Data will be web-based and collected by the family pediatricians during each of the 7 standard well-child visits scheduled for all children during