Using Canadian administrative health data to examine the health of caregivers of children with and without health problems: A demonstration of feasibility.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Caregivers of children with health problems experience poorer health than the caregivers of healthy children. To date, population-based studies on this issue have primarily used survey data.

Objectives

We demonstrate that administrative health data may be used to study these issues, and explore how non-categorical indicators of child health in administrative data can enable population-level study of caregiver health.

Methods

Dyads from Population Data British Columbia (BC) databases, encompassing nearly all mothers in BC with children aged 6-10 years in 2006, were grouped using a non-categorical definition based on diagnoses and service use. Regression models examined whether four maternal health outcomes varied according to indicators of child health.

SUBMITTER: Brehaut JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7479927 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature