Assessing the medium-term impact of a home-visiting programme on child maltreatment in England: Protocol for a routine data linkage study

BMJ Open

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Lugg Widger, Fiona V ^a   Cannings John, Rebecca ^a   Channon, Sue ^a   Fitzsimmons, Deborah ^b   Hood, Kerenza ^a   Jones, Kerina H ^b   Kemp, Alison ^c   Kenkre, Joyce ^d   Longo, Mirella ^c   McEwan, Kirsten ^e   Moody, Gwenllian ^a   Owen Jones, Eleri ^a   Sanders, Julia ^a   Segrott, Jeremy ^a,f   Robling, Michael ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Early years prevention; Family Nurse Partnership; Follow up studies; Medical record linkage

Indexed keywords

ANONYMISED DATA; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA BASE; EDUCATION; ENGLAND; EXTRACT; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSE; RESEARCH ETHICS; STATISTICS; STUDY DESIGN; WALES; CHILD ABUSE; GOVERNMENT; HOME VISIT; INFANT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85024383492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015728     Document Type: Article

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