Where we used to live: validating retrospective measures of childhood neighborhood context for life course epidemiologic studies.

ABSTRACT: Early life exposures influence numerous social determinants of health, as distal causes or confounders of later health outcomes. Although a growing literature is documenting how early life socioeconomic position affects later life health, few epidemiologic studies have tested measures for operationalizing early life neighborhood context, or examined their effects on later life health. In the Life-course Influences on Fetal Environments (LIFE) Study, a retrospective cohort study among Black women in Southfield, Michigan (71% response rate), we tested the validity and reliability of retrospectively-reported survey-based subjective measures of early life neighborhood context(N=693). We compared 3 subjective childhood neighborhood measures (disorder, informal social control, victimization), wi

SUBMITTER: Osypuk TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4405544 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature