Cancer Prevention Study-3: Health Behaviors and Mental Health Outcomes

A longitudinal study of 112,016 U.S. adults from the Cancer Prevention Study-3, with a mean age of 53 in 2015. It examines associations between adherence to American Cancer Society prevention guidelines and self-reported anxiety and depression symptoms measured six years later. The dataset was authored by Kathryn E. Chiang and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze longitudinal associations between composite health behavior scores and mental health symptoms.
• Model the relationship between body mass index, physical activity, diet, and alcohol consumption with depression and anxiety.
• Conduct sensitivity analyses on mental health outcomes by excluding participants with baseline conditions.
• Investigate changes in mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic based on pre-pandemic lifestyle factors.

Strengths

• Large participant cohort of 112,016 individuals, including 88,643 women and 23,373 men.
• Longitudinal design with a six-year follow-up period from 2015 to 2021.
• Uses a validated composite score (ACS Guideline Score) to quantify alignment with cancer prevention behaviors.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is contained in a 21.6 KB DOCX file, suggesting limited raw data or a summary format.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Cancer Prevention Study-3

Collection Method

Multivariable logistic regression analysis of survey and health assessment data.

Time Range

Baseline data from 2015, follow-up outcomes from 2021.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 04:19:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States