Michael A Cucciare, Cristy Benton, Deanna Hildebrand, Kathy Marchant, Sharfun Ghaus, Xiaotong Han, James S Williams, Ronald G Thompson, Christine Timko
Adapting an Alcohol Care Linkage Intervention to US Military Veterans Presenting to Primary Care with Hazardous Drinking and PTSD and/or Depression Symptoms: A Qualitative Study
Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings
linking datasets electronic records used build large birthcohorts enabling researchers costeffectively answer questions relevant populations lifecourse currently around 58 million palestinian refugees live five settings jordan lebanon syria west bank gaza strip united nations relief works agency palestine refugees near east unrwa provides free primary health elementaryschool services maintains electronic records sowe aimed establish birth cohort palestinian refugees born 1st january 2010 31st december 2020 living five settings linking mother obstetric records child health education records describe cohort characteristics future plan assess effects sizeatbirth growth health educational attainment among questions extracted available data 140 health centres 702 schools across five settings ie unrwa service users creating cohort involved examining ids data preparing data deduplicating records identifying livebirths linking mothers childrens data using different deterministic linking algorithms understanding reasons nonlinkage established birth cohort palestinian refugees using electronic records 972743 live births found high levels linkage health records overall 83 improved time 73 86 variations linkage rates setting averaged 93 gaza 89 lebanon 75 jordan 73 west bank 68 syria 423580 children ageeligible go school 47 went unrwa schools comprised 197479 children health education records 2447 children education records addition year setting factors associated nonlinkage included mortality nonrefugee mother misclassification errors minimal linked open birthcohort unique refugees arab region forms basis many future studies including elucidate pathways improved health education vulnerable understudied population characterization cohort leads us recommend using different subsets cohort depending research question analytic purposes