George B. Ploubidis

Children's social connections, internet usage and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South: evidence from Disrupting Harm

Thomas E. Metherell, Sebastian Kurten, Sakshi Ghai, George B. Ploubidis et autres

Purpose There is a notable lack of studies investigating the mental health associations of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South, particularly with regard to the use of digital technologies. We aimed to investigate the cross-sectional associations of digital technology use with …

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Additional file 1 of A data driven approach to address missing data in the 1970 British birth cohort

Michail Katsoulis, Martina K. Narayanan, Brian Dodgeon, George B. Ploubidis et autres

Supplementary Material 1.

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Additional file 1 of A data driven approach to address missing data in the 1970 British birth cohort

Michail Katsoulis, Martina K. Narayanan, Brian Dodgeon, George B. Ploubidis et autres

Supplementary Material 1.

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Patterns of childhood internalising and externalising symptoms and lifetime fertility in the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts

Aapo Hiilamo, Michaela Šedovič, Sanna Kailaheimo-Björkqvist, Aase Villadsen et autres

The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock is one of the leading demographic research centers in the world. It's part of the Max Planck Society, the internationally renowned German research society.

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An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference

Aysu Okbay, Robel G. Alemu, Anastasia Terskaya, Matthew Howell et autres

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An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference

Robel G. Alemu, Anastasia Terskaya, Matthew D. Howell, Junming Guan et autres

Polygenic indexes (PGIs) - DNA-based predictors of individual phenotypes - have become essential tools across biomedical and social sciences. We introduce Version 2 of the Polygenic Index Repository, which expands phenotype coverage from 47 to 61, increases the number of participating datasets …

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Using natural language processing to facilitate the harmonisation of mental health questionnaires: a validation study using real-world data

Eoin McElroy, Thomas Andrew Wood, Raymond B Bond, Maurice D. Mulvenna et autres

BACKGROUND: Pooling data from different sources will advance mental health research by providing larger sample sizes and allowing cross-study comparisons; however, the heterogeneity in how variables are measured across studies poses a challenge to this process. METHODS: This study explored the potential …

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Particulate air pollution and birth weight: A systematic literature review

Stergiani Tsoli, George B. Ploubidis, Olga‐Ioanna Kalantzi

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Lifelong Socio-economic Position and Later Life Health Related Behaviour: A Formal Mediation Approach

George B. Ploubidis, Lenka Beňová, Bianca Lucia De Stavola, Emily M D Grundy

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Water, sanitation, and hygiene practices mediate the association between women's empowerment and child length for‐age z‐scores in Nepal

Kenda Cunningham, Elaine Ferguson, Marie T. Ruel, Ricardo Uauy et autres

In Nepal, more than one‐third of children are stunted. Prior studies have shown that women's empowerment in agriculture is associated with child (<2 years) length‐for‐age z ‐scores (LAZ) in Nepal. This study tests whether child dietary diversity (DD) and household water, sanitation, …

Measuring behaviours for escaping from house fires: use of latent variable models to summarise multiple behaviours

George B. Ploubidis, Phil J Edwards, Denise Kendrick

BACKGROUND: This paper reports the development and testing of a construct measuring parental fire safety behaviours for planning escape from a house fire. METHODS: Latent variable modelling of data on parental-reported fire safety behaviours and plans for escaping from a house fire …

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Adolescent eating disorder behaviours and cognitions: Gender-specific effects of child, maternal and family risk factors

Nadia Micali, Bianca Lucia De Stavola, George B. Ploubidis, Emily A. Simonoff et autres

BACKGROUND: Eating disorder behaviours begin in adolescence. Few longitudinal studies have investigated childhood risk and protective FACTORS. AIMS: To investigate the prevalence of eating disorder behaviours and cognitions and associated childhood psychological, physical and parental risk factors among a cohort of 14-year-old …

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