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

[...]we assessed levels of accurate linkage to both health (via NHS Digital) and education and social care (both via National Pupil Database, NPD). [...]we assessed the availability of data and levels of missingness for key outcomes received for a sample of target study years. Key outcomes would include domains that are sensitive in nature such as maltreatment, which may be subject to reporting bias and non-response bias if solely assessed by maternal self-report. [...]we designed a study which used routine data to evaluate longer term programme impact [9]. [...]our research plan involves unconsented access to identifiable records for families who had previously consented to trial participation.