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Adding a Biosocial Component to
Understanding Society
Research Methods Festival
Session 56 – Understanding Society
July 2010
Stephanie McFall
Objectives of presentation
• Provide overview of biosocial data collection for
Understanding Society
• Put in context of other health information
Biosocial Understanding
Society
• Collection of biomarkers part of overall study
objectives
• Funds from Large Facilities Capital Fund to support
collection from part of the sample
• Needs to move quickly, to complete collection by
2012
• Funds for range of biomarkers, anthropometric and
functional measures from adults
• Will collect from BHPS sample and from random
sample of adults from new samples
• Seek future support for additional collections
Measures in 2 phases
Survey nurses
• Whole blood sample
For DNA and analytes
HbA1c, cholesterol, CRP,
Cystatin-C
• Anthropometry
Height, weight, waist
circumference, biometric
impedance
• Functional measures
Blood pressure, grip
strength, lung function
Non-clinical interviewers
• Saliva samples for DNA
• Dried blood spots
HbA1c, CRP, cholesterol,
Cystatin-C
• Anthropometry
Height, weight, waist
circumference, biometric
impedance
• Functional measures
Blood pressure, grip strength
Getting a quick start
• Build on experience and resources of NatCen, our
survey organization
Workforce
Measurement protocols
Training methods
• Build on consultation process
Sequence in nurse visit
Eligible: Full CAPI interview
Adult
Gen. pop. W2 (2010)
BHPS W3 (2011)
Nurse visit
~ 5 mo. later
Measures
Oral consent
Tissue samples (Blood)
Separate written consents
Transport to
storage facility
Token of
appreciation
to respondent
Upcoming pilot of interviewer
collection – Autumn 2010
• Focus on performance of core biomeasures
Acceptability to interviewers and respondents
Refine measurement procedures, e.g., timings
Trial run of interviewer training procedures
Preliminary information about quality of measures
• 100 adults and 20 interviewers
• Participants from NatCen Omnibus Survey willing to
be contacted for further research
• Support large scale implementation of interviewer
collection (potentially) in Summer 2011
Health component of adult
questionnaire
Interview
SF-12 including self-rated
health
Height & weight
Long-standing illness or
disability
Self-completion
GHQ-12
Quality and duration of
sleep
Life/health satisfaction
Type of disability or infirmity
The Warwick-Edinburgh
Mental Well-being Scale
Diagnosed health conditions
Alcohol consumption
Health behaviours (diet,
exercise, smoking)
Youth questionnaire
health component
• Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
• Health behaviours – diet, exercise, smoking,
alcohol, drugs
• Self-reported height and weight
• Self-rated health
Linkage of health records
• Consent asked of adults and about children by
responsible adult
• Request for past, current and future records
• Records on health registration
• Hospital admission information
Dates, diagnoses, treatments, procedures, waiting times
• Specific conditions, e.g., cancer
• Potentially useful in extending scope of interview
and biomeasure data – link life histories to health
care use, diagnoses, mortality
Conclusion
• Variety of biomeasures ranging from genetic to
functional to physical measurements
• Rich socio-economic data provides opportunity to assess
exposure and antecedent factors of health status,
understanding disease mechanisms and pathways,
household and socioeconomic effects
• Interaction of social and biological factors in behaviour
• Support social science and biomedical research and
research linking the two
• Resource for wide range of interdisciplinary research