Informing education and clinical practice
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 4:12 am
In addition to the core datasets, ECHILD contains a number of other resources. These include mental health services data, maternity services, community services and children’s social care (children looked after and children in need). There is therefore scope to examine not just hospital contacts but other services around the child and family that may be relevant to health and education outcomes.
Example of use
ECHILD can be used to study a broad range rcs data malaysia of topics to do with children’s health and education, including methodological studies (e.g., studies about using administrative data). The five themes that ECHILD has been approved for are:
Informing preventative strategies by healthcare and education services
Informing children and their parents
Identifying groups who could beneft from intervention
Understanding the most effective methods for working with linked health and education data
To take one published example, Libuy and colleagues used ECHILD to examine gestational age at birth and its association with primary school exam results. Their key findings are shown in Figure 1, which shows the relative risks of NOT achieving the expected standard at Key Stage 1 (age 6/7) and Key Stage 2 (age 10/11), comparing each gestational age in weeks with 40 weeks (term birth). The higher the dot, the worse the outcome. What is striking is a very clear gradient from 24 weeks to 39 weeks: those born more prematurely were less likely to achieve the expected standard. This study also showed that children born later than 40 weeks were also at slightly increased risk of not achieving the expected standard, meaning that attention should be paid to children born late-term, too.
Example of use
ECHILD can be used to study a broad range rcs data malaysia of topics to do with children’s health and education, including methodological studies (e.g., studies about using administrative data). The five themes that ECHILD has been approved for are:
Informing preventative strategies by healthcare and education services
Informing children and their parents
Identifying groups who could beneft from intervention
Understanding the most effective methods for working with linked health and education data
To take one published example, Libuy and colleagues used ECHILD to examine gestational age at birth and its association with primary school exam results. Their key findings are shown in Figure 1, which shows the relative risks of NOT achieving the expected standard at Key Stage 1 (age 6/7) and Key Stage 2 (age 10/11), comparing each gestational age in weeks with 40 weeks (term birth). The higher the dot, the worse the outcome. What is striking is a very clear gradient from 24 weeks to 39 weeks: those born more prematurely were less likely to achieve the expected standard. This study also showed that children born later than 40 weeks were also at slightly increased risk of not achieving the expected standard, meaning that attention should be paid to children born late-term, too.