Table 2 Specific outcomes by outcome category
Outcome Category | Specific Outcomes Assessed |
|---|---|
Cognitive and academic | Academic achievement/performance Cognitive ability/outcomes/development Executive function IQ Study skills Reading comprehension Intellectual functioning |
Socio-emotional and behavioural | Response to challenge and task persistence: • Response to academic challenge • Task persistence • Processing speed Behavioural and social: • Behavioural (including peer problems, conduct problems, impulsivity, aggression, anger, and prosocial behaviour) • Anxiety and stress • Social-emotional (including social problems, social competence, adjustment issues, and negative emotionality) • Attention/ADHD • Risk taking (including substance use, sexual activity, violence-related risk-taking, delinquency, and cheating) • Self-regulation and inhibitory control • Depression • Temperament • Future beliefs and aspirations • Empathy • Callous-unemotional traits and psychopathic characteristics |
Communication | Verbal/expressive vocabulary and non-verbal abilities Receptive vocabulary |
Parenting, family, and household functioning | Parenting: • Differential parenting • Parent-child closeness • Parenting – general • Parental self-efficacy • Parental mood • Harsh parenting • Discipline • Sibling relationships • Sleep-disturbing behaviours of family members • Parental reactions • Maternal attribution bias • Emotional availability • Child representation of family dysfunction Household characteristics and food security: • Food security • Family meal atmosphere |
Parent outcomes | Maternal executive function Parent diet/eating behaviours/weight status Maternal depression Maternal fatigue Maternal/parent sleep |
Hormone | Cortisol levels/profile Autonomic nervous system activity Developmental stability of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity Gut biomarkers Inflammatory profile |
Physical health, health behaviours, and communication disorders | Health/disease/disorder outcomes: • Child weight/weight status • HbA1c • Child health • Stuttering severity • Physical health symptoms Diet and Dietary behaviours: • Eating in the absence of hunger • Maternal feeding goals • Food-related behaviours Sleep: • Sleep • Sleep anxiety Other health behaviours/outcomes: • TV viewing behaviours in a laboratory setting • Maternal perceptions about physical activity |