Life Study is a new and very important research study that will involve over 80,000 babies born between 2014 and 2018 – and their families from across the UK.
Life Study will collect information about these babies over their early lives and childhoods and into adult life. This will help us understand how early life experiences shape health and wellbeing later on.
Has this type of research been done before?
In the UK there have been several major research studies similar to Life Study beginning in 1946 and most recently in 2000. Between them these studies have recorded the childhoods and adult lives for different generations growing up in Britain for over 50 years.
Babies in the earliest study are now well into their sixties and they continue to help researchers understand the importance of childhood experiences and how making a difference to children’s lives today makes a difference to their future lives as adults.
[For more go to http://www.lifestudy.ac.uk/about]
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