Site: https://nurseshealthstudy.org
Updated 5/16/22
Country: United States
Study design: Observational cohort with repeated measurements over time
Participant age range: Early adulthood or midlife at enrollment
Number of participants at baseline: 121,700 (NHS I); 116,430 (NHS II)
Year of initial enrollment: 1976 (NHS I); 1989 (NHS II)
Number of data collection waves: 23 (NHS I) and 17 (NHS II); data collection ongoing
Measures of well-being:
- Optimism
- Purpose / Meaning in Life / Ikigai
- Life Satisfaction
Quantity of well-being measures (e.g., number of constructs, number of times well-being was assessed): Moderate
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
- Linked medical records
- Adjudicated health outcomes
Access Information:
This dataset is available to all researchers.
Researchers are required to apply to access this data.
Fees are required to access this dataset.
Notable citation:
Kim E, Hagan K, Grodstein F, DeMeo D, De Vivo I, & Kubzansky L. (2017). Optimism and cause-specific mortality: a prospective cohort study. American journal of epidemiology, 185(1), 21-29.