READ ME File For 'Datasets for PhD thesis: Improving the Diets of Older People'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1090 

ReadMe Author: ILSE BLOOM, University of Southampton, ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4893-1790

This dataset supports the thesis entitled "Improving the Diets of Older People" by Ilse Bloom.
AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: [2019]


DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA


Dataset part of the GENIE study, a randomised controlled pilot study of a social network intervention in older COPD patients.

Chapter 6: A Social Network Intervention to Promote Diet Quality in Older Adults: A Pilot Study

Nutritional and lifestyle data collected using health behaviour questionnaires:
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Date of data collection: June 2017-February 2018
Other authors of this dataset: Lindsay Welch, Ivaylo Vassilev, Anne Rogers, Karen Jameson, Cyrus Cooper, Sian Robinson, Janis Baird


In addition, other datasets were used in the thesis which cannot be made available. These datasets were from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study.
The Hertfordshire Cohort Study is a birth cohort study based on historical data collected from individuals born in Hertfordshire between 1931 and 1939.
Datasets for the Hertfordshire Cohort Study are held by the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton.
Due to confidentiality requirements the data files cannot be uploaded. They are stored on the P drive at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit. 
Contact Vanessa Cox, IT manager, vac@mrc.soton.ac.uk for further information.  

Chapter 3: Hertfordshire Cohort Study: qualitative study of influences on diet in older age

Qualitative data collected using focus groups, exploring influences on diet among community-dwelling older people:
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Date of data collection: March 2014-September 2014


Chapter 4: Hertfordshire Cohort Study: quantitative study of psychosocial correlates of diet quality and change in diet quality in older people

Baseline data on diet, background characteristics, and social and psychological factors:
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Follow-up dietary data (collected as part of EPOSA study):
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Date of data collection: Baseline: 1998-2004; follow-up: 2011


Information about geographic location of data collection: 
Hertfordshire and Southampton, UK.


Related Funders:
[This work was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the NIHR CLAHRC Wessex. 
IB was supported by the National Institute for Health Research through the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.]


Related publications:
Bloom I, Lawrence W, Barker M, Baird J, Dennison E, Sayer AA, Cooper C and Robinson SM. What influences diet quality in older people? 
A qualitative study among community-dwelling older adults from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, UK. Public Health Nutrition. 2017; 20(15):2685-2693. 
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017001203

Bloom I, Edwards M, Jameson KA, Syddall HE, Dennison E, Gale CR, Baird J, Cooper C, Sayer AA and Robinson SM. Influences on diet quality in older age: 
the importance of social factors. Age and Ageing. 2017; 46(2):277-83. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw180


Date that the file was created: September, 2019

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