ELFE
Etude Longitudinale Française depuis l'Enfance" (French longitudinal study of children)...
Description
ELFE is the first French national birth cohort. Its objective is to study determinants of the development, health and socialization of children from birth to adulthood through a multidisciplinary approach. A total of 18 329 children were recruited at...
General Design
- Type
- Cohort study
- Cohort type
- Birth cohort
- Data collection type
- Retrospective, Prospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 2011 until 2021
- Design paper
- Cohort Profile: The French national cohort of children (ELFE): birth to 5 years.
Population
- Countries
- France
- Number of participants
- 18329
Organisations
Lead organisations
- National Institute of Medical Research (INSERM)France
Contributors
- Marie Aline Charlesmarie-aline.charles@inserm.fr
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Collection events
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Publications
Access conditions
- Submission of the project proposal to the cohort PI (Marie-Aline Charles) - Approval of the project by Elfe data access committee (takes 2 weeks) - Signature of a data access agreement - Data made available for analysis by Lucinda (credentials w...
- Data access conditions
- health or medical or biomedical research
- Release type
- Continuous
- Linkage options
- yes
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- The Ministries of the Environment, Health and Research provided initial funding for the ELFE cohort. The funding for the first 5 years of childhood follow-up was obtained from the national ‘Investment for the Future’ research funding program for a joint project bringing together the ELFE and Epipage 2 cohorts.