Longitudinal research

eParticipation Research: A Longitudinal Overview

This paper provides an update of the existing eParticipation research state of the art, and a longitudinal analysis of the development of the eParticipation field based on a shared framework of analysis. Drawing on a literature search covering the period from April 2006 to March 2011 included, 123 articles are identified, analysed and classified within the categories of eParticipation actors, a...

Longitudinal social research in Ethiopia

1. Overview This report identifies and collates studies involving longitudinal social research in Ethiopia. There are a limited number of studies which fall under this classification. Much of the longitudinal research in Ethiopia focuses on health or agricultural sectors, rather than social issues. Some health studies are included in this report as they involve social dimensions or behavioural ...

Longitudinal research on bipolar disorders.

Longitudinal assessment of the course of major psychiatric disorders has been advanced by studies from onset, but only rarely have large numbers of patients with a range of psychotic and major affective disorders been studied simultaneously and systematically from illness-onset. The decade-long McLean-Harvard First Episode Project & International Consortium for Bipolar Disorder Research has sys...

Characterizing time in longitudinal trauma research.

Despite the proliferation of longitudinal trauma research, careful attention to timing of assessments is often lacking. Patterns in timing of assessments, alternative time structures, and the treatment of time as an outcome are discussed and illustrated using trauma data.

Latent Class Models in Longitudinal Research