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,...

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Main Authors: Fiona Lugg-Widger, Rebecca Cannings-John, Lianna Angel, Gwenllian Moody, Jeremy Segrott, Joyce Kenkre, Michael Robling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:Pilot and Feasibility Studies
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40814-018-0294-4