Publications by authors named "B de Stavola"
Objective: The objective is to describe age-specific cumulative incidence for hospital-recorded indicators of chronic health conditions (CHCs) in children with Down syndrome (DS) compared with children without DS.
Design: National birth cohort using hospital admission and death records.
Setting: National Health Service (NHS)-funded hospitals in England.
Background: Special educational needs (SEN) provision is designed to help pupils with additional educational, behavioural or health needs; for example, pupils with cleft lip and/or palate may be offered SEN provision to improve their speech and language skills. Our aim is to contribute to the literature and assess the impact of SEN provision on health and educational outcomes for a well-defined population.
Methods: We will use the ECHILD database, which links educational and health records across England.
Article Synopsis
- About one-third of children in English primary schools receive special educational needs (SEN) provision, and those born preterm are at a higher risk for needing it compared to full-term children.
- The study will analyze data from the ECHILD database, focusing on children born between 2003 and 2008, categorizing them by their gestational age and examining the effects of different types of SEN support on their health and educational outcomes.
- Results will be shared with various audiences, including researchers and government departments, through publications and seminars after ethical approval for the study is secured.
Article Synopsis
- - The study examines the methodological challenges in assessing Long Covid in children and young people (CYP), particularly regarding issues like non-response and attrition that could lead to biased findings.
- - It aims to create survey weights for the CLoCk study to better understand the prevalence of symptoms (like shortness of breath and tiredness) over time in both SARS-CoV-2 positive and negative CYP.
- - The successful development and application of flexible survey weights allow for the adjustment of findings, making them more generalizable to the overall CYP population in England and emphasizing the need to account for selection biases when analyzing such studies.
Introduction: Recent years have seen an increase in linkages between survey and administrative data. It is important to evaluate the quality of such data linkages to discern the likely reliability of ensuing research. Evaluation of linkage quality and bias can be conducted using different approaches, but many of these are not possible when there is a separation of processes for linkage and analysis to help preserve privacy, as is typically the case in the UK (and elsewhere).
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