Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on New York City Public School Children's Longitudinal Health and Education Outcomes, 2020-2022

This study examines how significant disruptions to children's health, education, and overall well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic created lasting influence on health, development, and social trajectories through the lifecourse, and the risk for long-term health outcomes. The research leverages the New York City (NYC) Student Population Health Registry (SPHR), a uniquely inclusive, longitudinal database of all NYC public school students created jointly by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and NYC Department of Education, along with other publicly available data sources.
Research to date has focused on racial and geographic disparities in school-level vaccination rates, and on racial and ethnic group differences in New York City schoolchildren becoming fully vaccinated (two doses) within 6 months of vaccine eligibility. Future research is expected to focus on outcomes such as increased incidence and exacerbation of chronic diseases like obesity, asthma, and diabetes; stress and anxiety; and educational consequences such as declines in academic achievement (test scores), increases in chronic absenteeism, repeating grades, or high school dropout. Also of interest are the mitigating effects of child-, classroom-, and school-level vaccination rates, and neighborhood and school characteristics such as income, vaccination sites, emergency food resources, and open space.
The ICPSR provides variable-level metadata for the data associated with this study. The actual data may only be available from the Principal Investigator directly. The variable descriptions available through ICPSR also include information regarding the source of each variable listed, as does the Data Source field of these metadata.

本研究旨在探讨新冠疫情期间儿童健康、教育与整体福祉所遭受的重大冲击，如何对其全生命周期内的健康、发展与社会轨迹产生持久影响，以及长期健康结局的患病风险。
本研究依托纽约市（New York City, 简称NYC）学生群体健康登记库（Student Population Health Registry, 简称SPHR）——该库由纽约市卫生与精神卫生局（NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene）与纽约市教育局（NYC Department of Education）联合创建，是覆盖纽约市所有公立学校学生的独特包容性纵向数据库——同时结合了其他公开数据源。
迄今为止的相关研究多聚焦于学校层面疫苗接种率的种族与地域差异，以及纽约市学龄儿童在符合疫苗接种资格后6个月内完成全程接种（2剂次）的种族与族裔群体差异。
未来研究拟重点关注的结局包括肥胖、哮喘与糖尿病等慢性病的发病率上升与病情加重、应激与焦虑症状，以及学业成绩下滑（考试分数）、长期缺勤率上升、留级或高中辍学等教育层面的后果。
此外，本研究还将关注儿童、班级与学校层面的疫苗接种率所发挥的缓解效应，以及社区与学校特征（如收入水平、疫苗接种点布局、应急食品资源与开放空间）的影响。
大学间政治与社会研究联盟（Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 简称ICPSR）为本研究相关数据提供变量级元数据。实际数据仅可直接从项目首席研究员（Principal Investigator, 简称PI）处获取。通过ICPSR可获取的变量描述，以及本元数据的“数据源”字段，均包含所列各变量的来源信息。