MatCH (Mothers and their Children’s Health) is a nationwide Australian study to investigate the links between the history of health, wellbeing and living conditions of mothers and the health and development of their children. MatCH builds on the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH), which began in 1996 and has surveyed more than 58,000 women in four nationally representative age cohorts. MatCH focuses on the three youngest offspring of the cohort of ALSWH participants randomly sampled from all women in Australia born in 1973–78 (N=5780 children of N=3039 mothers). These women, who had completed up to seven postal or online surveys since 1996, were invited in 2016–17 to complete surveys about the health and development of their three youngest children aged under 13. The mothers reported on their children’s health conditions and symptoms, diet, anthropometric measures, childcare, screen time, physical activity, temperament, behaviour, language development, motor development and health service utilisation, as well as household and environmental factors. These data are being linked with each child’s records from official sources including the Australian Early Development Census (collected at age five to six), the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (collected at age eight, 10, 12 and 14) and other external datasets. MatCH will combine 20 years of maternal data with all the information on her children, taking into account the family setting. MatCH offers an unprecedented opportunity to advance our understanding of the relationship between maternal health and wellbeing and child health and development.

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MatCH（母亲及其子女的健康）简介：澳大利亚妇女健康纵向研究的1973-78年队列的后代

MatCH（母亲及其子女的健康）是澳大利亚一项全国性的研究，旨在研究母亲的健康史，幸福和生活状况与子女的健康与成长之间的联系。MatCH以澳大利亚妇女健康纵向研究（ALSWH）为基础，该研究始于1996年，已对四个全国有代表性的年龄组的58,000多名妇女进行了调查。MatCH重点研究了ALSWH参与者队列中三个最年轻的后代，这些参与者是从1973-78年出生的澳大利亚所有妇女中随机抽取的（N = 5780个孩子，N = 3039个母亲）。这些女性自1996年以来完成了多达7项邮政或在线调查，并于2016-17年度完成了有关其三个13岁以下孩子的健康和发育状况的调查。母亲们报告了孩子的健康状况和症状，饮食，人体测量学，育儿，筛查时间，体育锻炼，性情，行为，语言发展，运动发展和保健服务利用以及家庭和环境因素。这些数据与每个孩子的记录相关联，这些记录来自官方资料，包括澳大利亚早期发育普查（在5至6岁时收集），国家评估计划-识字和算术（在8、10、12和14岁时收集）以及其他外部数据。数据集。考虑到家庭环境，MatCH会将20年的孕产妇数据与有关孩子的所有信息结合在一起。