{"id":593,"date":"2020-02-06T13:29:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nethealth\/?page_id=593"},"modified":"2020-03-07T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T12:47:03","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/nethealth\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NetHealth Project is a multi-year longitudinal study of social networks and health funded by the National Health, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (5R01HL117757-04) and administered through the Center for Network Science and Data<\/a> at the University of Notre Dame (formerly iCeNSA).\u00a0 The project collected a wide range of data from a cohort of Notre Dame undergraduate students who entered Notre Dame in the Fall of 2015 and graduated in the Spring of 2019. Around 700 students were initially recruited for a two-year study, and 300 students in this cohort continued to participate for an additional two years (totaling four years overall).\u00a0 The study involved the collection of several types of data, including information on each participant\u2019s social networks, physical activity and sleep obtained from Fitbit devices, and physical and mental health, social-psychological states, tastes and various self-reported behaviors, and demographics and background traits through surveys.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through this website, we are releasing a good deal of the data that was collected.\u00a0 This website documents and provides access to the various data sets that we are releasing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This data is confidential and was obtained with informed consent from study participants through approved IRB protocols designed to ensure confidentiality and maintain the security of the data.\u00a0 We have implemented a case identification system that anonymizes the data while allowing researchers to link together data from different sources. Details on this system are in the <\/span>Data Linkage and Identification<\/span><\/i> section under the <\/span>Data Collection<\/b> heading where we also provide detailed descriptions on each of these data collection efforts and resulting datasets, as well as information on the <\/span>Sample<\/span><\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n