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Sleep clinics with health visitors: a 2‐year evaluation
Author(s) -
RICHARDS ELIZABETH,
BIDDER REETTA T.,
GARDNER SANDRA
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1992.tb00368.x
Subject(s) - referral , service (business) , sleep (system call) , medicine , health services , psychology , family medicine , nursing , psychiatry , business , environmental health , computer science , marketing , operating system , population
Summary This study was undertaken to evaluate a service for sleep clinics over a time span of 2 years. The service was operated jointly by health visitors and clinical psychologists and based on a previous model run by the same team of psychologists and child development advisors. The outcome was not supportive of this type of service in terms of referral rates over a period of time, improvement rate, continued existence or cost‐effectiveness of such a service. The reasons for the difficulties of such clinics are discussed.