Site: https://www.mesa-nhlbi.org
Updated 5/30/22
Country: United States
Study design: Observational cohort with repeated measurements over time
Participant age range:
- Early adulthood or midlife
- Aging adults
Number of participants at baseline: 6,814 adults aged 45-84
Year of initial enrollment: 2000
Number of data collection waves: 6 primary, > 20 secondary; data collection ongoing
Measures of well-being:
- Optimism
- Social support / integration / cohesion
Quantity of well-being measures (e.g., number of constructs, number of times well-being was assessed): Low
Quality of well-being measures (e.g., were measures reliable and valid in the study population): High
Measures of physical health:
- Self-rated / questionnaire-based health
- Self-report medical history or medication use
- Measured anthropometrics, e.g., weight
- Biomarkers
- Genetics
- Adjudicated health outcomes
Access Information:
This dataset is available to all researchers.
Researchers are required to apply to access this data.
No fees are required to access this dataset.
Notable citation:
Hernandez R, Kershaw K, Siddique J, Boehm J, Kubzansky L, Diez-Roux A, Ning H, & Lloyd-Jones D. (2015). Optimism and cardiovascular health: multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). Health behavior and policy review, 2(1), 62-73.