studying puberty

Code

• PDS → Tanner-like Staging in ABCD; Shirtcliff et al., 2009
• Puberty Composite Score for studies collecting line drawings and PDS
• Herting & Uban’s code for deriving PDS, salivary covariates
• Scoring & Handling of PDS in ABCD
• Longitudinal Considerations Code
• Code for puberty-age-gap in ABCD
• Code for cleaning and correcting hormone levels in ABCD
• R package for calculating standardized menstrual cycle time variable

Documents & Guides

• Herting saliva processing decision tree
• Cheng et al., 2021 - studying puberty in the ABCD study at baseline
• Puberty-age-gap (Dehestani et al., 2023)
• The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods
• Understanding Puberty and Its Measurement: Ideas for Research in a New Generation

Resources

Multi-lingual Measurements

• Adapted version of the Pubertal Development Scale for use in Brazil
• Validation of the Korean version of the Pubertal Development Scale (PDS-K): a non-invasive self-report tool for epidemiological use

Psychometrics

• National Norms and Psychometrics for the Pubertal Development Scale

Protocol Papers

• Study Protocol: Transitions in Adolescent Girls (TAG)
• Puberty and NeuroDevelopment in adolescents (PANDA): a study protocol
• Study protocol: Imaging brain development in the Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study (iCATS)

Datasets

• TAG, PANDA, and iCATS (see protocol papers above)
• HCP-Development
• Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)