Examples of Available Datasets
Project | Data Collection Information | Psychosocial Measures | Biological Measures |
National Study of Daily Experiences/MIDUS (Almeida PI) |
National Sample of 2,200 adults age 35-85, longitudinal diary burst | Daily Stressors, Positive Events, Social Support, Ethnicity, Personality Mastery Positive and Emotions |
Salivary assessments of diurnal cortisol, alpha-amylase, Endocrine functioning , Inflammatory markers, Blood Pressure , Heart Rate Variability; MRI for brain structure and function for selected subjects |
Effects of Stress on Cognitive Aging, Emotion and Physiology: ESCAPE (Sliwinski, PI Graham/Engeland, PIs) |
240 racially diverse individuals in early adulthood and midlife (ages 25-65) in the Bronx, NY (Co-op City), “measurement-burst” consisting of 8 biannual “bursts” of 14 daily assessments | Current and cumulative life stressors, cognition, positive and negative affect, unconstructive repetitive thought (URT), and cognitive function | Diurnal cortisol, blood pressure, BMI Circulatory inflammatory biomarkers (inflammatory state) and stimulated inflammatory responses (ex vivo to an immunological stressor); diurnal cortisol |
Daily Individual and Marital Processes in Osteoarthritis (Martire, PI) | 152 adults 50 years of age or older with a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis and their spouse/spouse- equivalent; electronic diary, accelerometry, 3 waves of interviews | Spouse support/control, spouse and patient well-being, spouse and patient health behaviors, patient mood, patient symptom severity, marital quality | Physical activity and energy expenditure; genetic polymorphisms for pain sensitivity (e.g., COMT, OPRM1) |
Work Family Health (Almeida, Buxton PIs) | Work Place intervention study of 3000 employees in IT and Assisted Care Industries. Four waves of data across 2 years | Work and Family Stressors, Supervisor Support, Health Behaviors, perceived stress, psychological distress, work family conflict, intergenerational Care giving | Diurnal Cortisol, Inflammatory Markers, Cardiometabolic risk, HBA1C, Sleep actigraphy |
Einstein Aging Study (Sliwinski, PI) | Annual assessments (1152 participants) and daily measurement bursts (subset of 600 individuals), 8-day telephone diary repeated yearly for 3 years | Episodic memory, processing speed, working memory, executive function, daily stressors, pain intensity and interference | Diurnal cortisol; MRI for brain structure and function for selected subjects; bloods drawn for potentially important markers related to brain health; autopsy (to confirm diagnosis of dementia) |
Aging and Human Skin Blood Flow (Kenney PI, Alexander CoI) |
24 year long running study with over 1,000 aged subjects | Physical Activity, Socioeconomic Status | Maximal oxygen consumption, skin blood flow, cardiac output, skin biopsies, inflammatory markers, cardiometabolic function, pharmacological and exercise training interventions |