Stress, development and mental health study, the follow-up study of Finnish TAM cohort from adolescence to midlife: cohort profile.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This cohort profile describes the Stress, development and mental health study (TAM), which is a cohort study investigating risk and protective factors as well as longitudinal associations regarding mental health and well-being from adolescence to midlife. This interdisciplinary cohort study operates, for example, in the fields of public health, social medicine, psychiatry and the life course perspective.

Participants

In 1981 (n=2242, 98.0% of the target population), 1982 (n=2191, 95.6%) and 1983 (n=2194, 96.7%) during school classes, surveys were conducted to all Finnish-speaking pupils (mostly born 1967) in the Tampere region in Finland. Participants of the school study at age 16 in 1983 (n=2194) comprised the base population for the longitudinal data and were follo

SUBMITTER: Berg N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8640638 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature