06/02/2026
2016: What did we discover? 💫
Interested in learning what we discovered a decade ago? Here's a snapshot of the findings we uncovered thanks to your participation! 👏
🎬Drinking in films: What we did -
• When participants were 15, we asked them whether they had seen 50 films, randomly selected from a list of 366 popular ones. We also asked about their alcohol use.
• We recorded the amount of time (in seconds) that alcohol was seen in each film.
• We analysed information about the child’s behaviour which we had gathered when they were 7 and 13.
• We compared all this information with what the parents of participants told us about their own alcohol use when their children were 12.
• We also compared it with other information about the parents’ lives from pregnancy onwards.
🎮Video games: What we did -
• We looked at what participants told us about their video game use in a questionnaire when they were aged eight or nine.
• We compared this with the results of an interview we did with participants when they were aged 15 about behaviour and depression.
😴Chronic fatigue syndrome: What we did -
• We looked at information participants and their parents gave us about tiredness and energy in questionnaires when they were aged 16.
• We reviewed what parents told us about their family situation and living conditions when their children were aged 8-10.
• We matched this up with school absences recorded during year 11 on the National Pupil Database. This was possible thanks to the large number of participants who’ve allowed us to link to their school records.
#2016❤️
