Cohort Profile: The Stockholm Public Health Cohort

Abstract

The Stockholm Public Health Cohort was set up within the Stockholm County Council public health surveys to inform on determinants and consequences of significant contributors to the current burden of disease. Participants are 89 268 randomly selected individuals from the adult population of Stockholm County. Baseline surveys took place in 2002, 2006 and 2010 via self-administered questionnaires. So far, participants recruited in 2002 were re-surveyed twice, in 2007 and 2010, and those enrolled in 2006 were re-surveyed once, in 2010. Self-reported data are regularly supplemented by information from national and regional health data and administrative registers, for study participants and their relatives (including their offspring). Available data are extensive and include a wide array of health, lifestyle, perinatal, demographic, socio-economic and familial factors. The cohort is an international resource for epidemiological research, and the data available to the research community for specific studies obtained approval from the Stockholm Public Health Cohort Steering Committee and the Stockholm Regional Ethical Review Board.

Cannabis use and psychological distress: An 8-year prospective population-based study among Swedish men and women

“…These weights are constructed on the basis of available auxiliary variables from different national registers and their co-variation with survey data, such as age, sex, country of birth, marital status, income, education, sick-leave benefits and stratum (Lundstrom, 1999;Statistics Sweden, 2010;Svensson et al, 2013).The analyses were computed with the SURVEY suite in SAS Statistical Program version 9.3.…”

“…This population-based cohort study, i.e., the Stockholm Public Health Cohort (SPHC) has been described in detail previously (Svensson et al, 2013). In brief, we used data from one of the cohorts, with a baseline survey that took place in 2002 comprising 31,182 (equal to a 62% retention rate) randomly selected Swedish men and women aged 18 to 84 years residing within Stockholm County.…”

Stable or improved health status in the population 65 years and older in Stockholm, Sweden – an 8-year follow-up of self-reported health items

“…Material the Stockholm Public Health Survey (previously described in [16]) has been conducted every fourth year since 1990 with the aim of investigating the health status of the Stockholm population. the material used in this study consists of three cross-sectional surveys examining health and living conditions in the Stockholm County, Sweden.…”

Residential area and physical activity: A multi-level study of 68,000 adults in Stockholm County

“…A similar questionnaire was sent out to 55,587 people who had previously responded to one or more surveys, of which 44,003 (77.4%) responded. In total, the cohort consisted of 74,770 people [13]. We used information from the 68,303 participants with full data on all included variables.…”