PROactive cohort study

Patient Reported Outcomes in children and Adolescents with Chronic/life-threatening diseases and Tailored InterVentions in a digital Environment (PROactive) cohort study...

Description

Children with a chronic disease face more obstacles than their healthy peers, which may impact their physical, social-emotional, and cognitive development. In the long run, children with a chronic disease reach developmental milestones later than the...

General Design

Cohort type

Clinical cohort, Population cohort

Design

Longitudinal

Design description

PROactive is a questionnaire-based cohort study focussing on mental well-being, psychosocial well-being and participation, with a life-course perspective using a continuous longitudinal approach. It encompasses children, adolescents, and young adults with chronic conditions across a wide age range and their parent(s). Depending on the timing of diagnosis, participants are included between the ages of 0 and 18.

Collection type

Retrospective, Prospective

Start/End year

2016 - ongoing

Population

Countries

Netherlands (the)

Regions

Noord-Holland, Noord-Brabant, Utrecht

Number of participants

3000

Population age groups

Infant (0-23 months), Child (2-12 years), Adolescent (13-17 years), Young adult (18-24 years)

Contributors

Additional organisations

  • Haaglanden Medical Centre
  • Jeroen Bosch Hospital

Available Data & Samples

Data categories

  • Survey data
  • Medical records

Areas of information

  • Socio-demographic and economic characteristics
  • Lifestyle and behaviours
  • Perception of health, quality of life, development and functional limitations
  • Symptoms and signs
  • Physical measures and assessments
  • Cognition, personality and psychological measures and assessments
  • Life events, life plans, beliefs and values
  • Preschool, school and work life
  • Social environment and relationships
  • Physical environment
  • Administrative information

Subpopulations

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Collection events

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Partners

Networks

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Publications

Access conditions

The first version of our Data Request & Publication Guidelines is available (dataverseNL). We have outlined the terms and conditions under which data reuse will be permitted. A data request requires researchers to complete an application detailing th...

Data access conditions
  • general research use
  • health or medical or biomedical research
  • disease specific research
Data use conditions
  • research specific restrictions
  • not for profit, non commercial use only
  • collaboration required
  • user specific restriction
  • project specific restriction
  • return to database or resource
  • clinical care use
Release type
  • Periodically
Release description

Monthly

Funding & Acknowledgements

Funding

• PROactive start received in 2015 WKZ onderzoeksfonds grant (nr: R3939; duration April 2016-April 2021 • PROactive Consequences of COVID-19 received in 2022 the Elisabeth v Freyborg grant (nr: N/A; duration July 2020- June 2022) • PROactive extension to non-academic hospitals received in 2022 a ZonMw program quality of care grant (nr: 05160482120001; duration May 2022 – December 2024) • PROactive-YA (adolescents) received in 2023 a Taskforce for Applied Research SIA, (Dutch: Regieorgaan SIA) grant no. RAAK.PRO05.057; duration April 2024 – April 2028.

Acknowledgements

This research is part of the PROactive cohort. All data originates from children under treatment at the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital Utrecht (WKZ). We are grateful to everyone who participated in this research or worked on this project to make it possible. [Name relevant disease group representatives]

Documentation