Enhancing and Archiving the Triad Child Study with Additional Data - Project Summary Modified Project Summary/Abstract Section The prenatal period and infancy are highly salient periods with significant implications for subsequent maternal mental health, parenting quality, mother-infant relationships, and infant outcomes, all of which predict children’s long-term adaptation. The bulk of longitudinal studies over these periods with “gold standard” and/or intensive observational, interview, and physiological data on mothers and infants is primarily from samples with limited variability e.g., White samples or low-income non-White samples. Further, given the resource intensity of this type of research, it is relatively unattainable for most scholars. The purpose of this proposal, which is in response to PAR-24-256 Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets, is to address these barriers to innovation via controlled sharing of data from the Triad Child Study; a prospective longitudinal study of 259 mother-infant dyads (131 Black, 128 White) followed across 4 waves from the third trimester until children were 2 years old. The current data set includes: (a) interview transcripts and ratings from the Adult Attachment Interview and interviews focused on emotion-related parenting beliefs and goals; (b) mother heart rate variability and skin conductance level during the Prenatal Emotion Interview and Still Face at 6 months and infant heart rate variability from the Still Face at 6 months; (c) behavioral ratings of mother and infant behavior (affect, emotion regulation) during free play and distress eliciting tasks at each postpartum wave and infant-mother attachment from the Strange Situation; and (d) extensive maternal-report measures at each wave (e.g., childhood experiences, depressive symptoms, personality, marital satisfaction, parenting, infant temperament, infant behavior problems). Participants resided in a geographic region characterized by high variability in neighborhood-level risk and resources. The goal of the proposed project is to enhance the data set and make it publicly available via three specific aims. Aim 1: Extract validated neighborhood-level indicators of risk (e.g., CDC Social Vulnerability Index) and resources (Child Opportunity Index) based on participant addresses to further enrich the existing data set. Aim 2: De-identify, document, combine, and upload the following data sources to the NICHD Data and Specimen Hub: (a) interview transcripts, (b) raw physiological data files in text form, and (c) tabular data files including items, ratings, and total scores derived from questionnaires, interviews, video-ratings of mothers and infants, and neighborhood level indicators noted in Aim 1. Aim 3: Proactively disseminate information about the data set to a broad set of developmental/family/clinical scholars to (a) promote access to the data set and (b) encourage those with similar data to embed neighborhood-level data and collaborate on larger efforts to address effects of neighborhood-level risk and resources on early parenting and child outcomes.
