Sentences with phrase «using gus»

Appendix 2 presents a detailed description of all factors and explains how they were measured using the GUS data.

Below we explain how each is measured using the GUS data.

The analysis of associations between parenting and health outcomes controlled for other important family influences on poor health, including low income and maternal mental health that have been widely found in other research including other investigations using GUS data.

After the completion of current and future data collection, such analysis will be possible using GUS data.

Not exact matches

This parenting index was similar to one devised for the evaluation of Sure Start (National Evaluation of Sure Start 2008), although GUS does not contain the observational measures used in the Sure Start evaluation.

We make good use of the longitudinal element of GUS, using data from all five years (2005/06 to 2009/10) to identify an event that children have experienced during the first years of childhood (research question 1).

This report uses data from the Growing Up in Scotland study (GUS) to present a detailed exploration of children's social, emotional and behavioural development during the early years of their lives up to their entry to primary school.

However, we use the longitudinal weights supplied with the GUS dataset in our analysis to adjust for this 1.

This study uses data from the first GUS birth cohort, a nationally representative sample of families with children born between June 2004 and May 2005.

Future work will seek to strengthen this finding using teacher - reported measures of child wellbeing collected at age 10 (but not available for this study), and by examining father - child relationships at age 10 in relation to children's wellbeing measured in future sweeps of GUS.

The study uses data from the Growing Up in Scotland study (GUS).

This study uses the breadth of GUS data to look across not just several significant events, but also multiple family outcomes for each event.

First we should reiterate that our measure of poverty may not be precise, most notably because GUS collects income information using just one question rather than as part of a detailed exercise.

The analysis in this report uses information from families in the birth cohort that took part in all of the first five sweeps of GUS.

The longitudinal Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) survey was used to explore whether being exposed to a mother with poor mental health affected children's development at age four.

Maternal mental health was assessed by GUS using two different scales: at Sweeps 1 and 3 (ages 10 months and 34 months respectively) the SF12 Mental Health Component Score (MCS) was used, whereas at Sweeps 2 and 4 (ages 22 months and 46 months respectively) selected items from the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) were used.

2 MEASURING HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN GUS 2.1 Measures used in this report 2.1.1 Health outcomes and risk factors 2.1.2 Inequality measures

Research on factors conducive to positive change in parenting behaviour, using parenting measures tracked at future sweeps of GUS would also be a useful addition to the evidence base for parenting policy.

This study uses five years of Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) data to investigate four significant events in early childhood:

Parenting behaviours in the MCS study covered similar «domains» to GUS, with some similar or identical measures, although it did not include the parental supervision or home chaos measures used here.

GUS has measured maternal mental health using two different scales: at sweeps 1 and 3 (ages 10 months and 34 months respectively), the SF12 Mental Health Component Score (MCS) was used, whereas at sweeps 2 and 4 (ages 22 months and 46 months respectively) selected items from the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS10) were used.

(GUS) Parental service use and informal networks in the early years, research findings 1/2011 (GUS) Growing up in Scotland: Changes in child cognitive ability in the pre-school years, research findings 2/2011, (GUS) Change in early childhood and the impact of significant events, research findings 4/2011

Using longitudinal data over four sweeps of the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study, this report explores the impacts of poor maternal mental health on children's emotional, cognitive and behavioural development and on their relationships with peers at ages three to four.

The percentage estimated as meeting physical activity guidelines (62 %) is similar to the 68 % of all 2 - 4 year olds and 75 % of 5 - 7 year olds reported meeting the guidlines in the 2008/09 Scottish Health Survey, although there were some differences in the questions used between GUS and the Scottish Health Survey.

Despite various limitations with the way GUS collects income information, this longitudinal measure of poverty can be used to compare GUS children with different durations of living in low - income households.

Evidence from the GUS study has already been used to inform the development of the strategy and the study is well placed to consider the impact of the strategy on children and parents as the commitments within in it are implemented across Scotland.