Site: https://www.jacksonheartstudy.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: 5,306 African American adults aged 35-84
Year of initial enrollment: 2000
Number of data collection waves: 3 primary waves; data collection ongoing
Measures of well-being:
- Optimism
- Mastery
- Social support / integration / cohesion
- Prosocial behavior or attitudes (e.g., volunteering, helping others)
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
- 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:
Lee H, Kubzansky L, Okuzono S, Trudel-Fitzgerald C, James P, Koga H, Kim E, Glover L, Sims M & Grodstein F. (2022). Optimism and risk of mortality among African-Americans: The Jackson heart study. Preventive medicine, 154, 106899.