Special Health Care Needs Across the School and Family Contexts: Implications for Service Utilization

M O'Connor; S Rosema; J Quach; A Kvalsvig; S Goldfeld

Journal article

Special Health Care Needs Across the School and Family Contexts: Implications for Service Utilization

M O'Connor, S Rosema, J Quach, A Kvalsvig, S Goldfeld

Academic Pediatrics | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2017.02.012

Abstract

Objective A fifth of children enter school with special health care needs (SHCN), many of whom have difficulties that are milder or not yet formally diagnosed (emerging SHCN). This study aimed to investigate how differing perceptions of children's emerging SHCN across the family and school contexts relates to service utilization. Methods Sample: The nationally representative birth cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, which includes parent reports on the abbreviated Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener. For a subsample of 2459 children teachers also completed the Australian Early Development Census, a measure of early childhood development at school entry that ..

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Meredith O'Connor Author

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Sharon Goldfeld Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

Personnel support for this analysis was funded by the Australian Government, and was supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. Dr Quach is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE140100751). Prof Goldfeld is supported by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship 1082922. The funding bodies had no role in relation to the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the report; and decision to submit the report for publication.r This report uses unit record data from Growing Up in Australia, the LSAC. The study is conducted in partnership between the Department of Social Services, the Australian Institute of Family Studies, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This report also uses data from the AEDC, which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. The findings and views reported are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Australian Government, the Department of Education and Training, Department of Social Services, Australian Institute of Family Studies, or the Australian Bureau of Statistics.