Welcome to the Mothers and their Children’s Health (MatCH 2) substudy

With your help, we’re investigating how mothers’ health and wellbeing interacts with family and environmental factors to impact the health and development of the next generation.

The Mothers and their Children’s Health substudy

MatCH is a substudy of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH). About 8 years ago, we undertook the first MatCH survey. This survey looked at the health and wellbeing of children aged 0-12 years of women in the ALSWH 1973-78 cohort. Now we are conducting MatCH 2 (survey 2), to follow up those children from the first wave, and to collect data on other children, aged 0-19 years, born to women in the 1973-78 cohort who were not involved in the first MatCH survey.

We acknowledge that not everyone who has given birth to a child may identify as a woman or mother, including individuals in the transgender community and people who are non-binary.

MatCH 2 is coming soon. Look out for your invitation in your email.

MatCH 2 is funded by the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care. It is a substudy of ALSWH, also known as Women’s Health Australia (WHA).

MatCH (survey 1) was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Project Grant APP1059550).