Family Nurse Partnership evaluation: methods and process
This paper presents the methods of using routinely collected health, education and social care data to evaluate the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) in Scotland using a natural experiment methodology.
Key Definitions
- Case / FNP Client – young mothers in Scotland expecting their first child who were offered and received FNP.
- Control – young mothers in Scotland expecting their first child who were not offered FNP but would have been eligible if available.
- Data linkage – Data brought together from two different records considered to belong to the same person.
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