Assessing the impact of specialist home visiting upon maltreatment in England: a feasibility study of data linkage from a public health trial to routine health and social care data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Follow-up for public health trials may benefit from greater use of routine data. Our trial of a home-visiting intervention for first-time teenage mothers assessed outcomes to the child's second birthday. To examine its medium-term impact, particularly upon maltreatment outcomes, we designed a study using routine records.

Methods

We aimed to establish the feasibility of our study design, which combines trial data with routine health, social care and education data using a dissent-based linkage model. Trial participant identifiers were linked to routine health, social care and education data if women did not dissent. Data were forwarded to a safe haven and further linked to de-identified trial outcome data. The feasibility study aimed first to establish the acceptab

SUBMITTER: Lugg-Widger F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6022436 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature