Abstract
This article provides both qualitative and quantitative data on practice variation amongst preventive child healthcare professionals in the prevention of child maltreatment in the Netherlands. Qualitative data consist of topics identified during interviews with 11 experts (with quotes), resulting in an online survey. The quantitative data are survey responses from 1104 doctors and nurses working in 29 preventive child healthcare organizations. Additionally, the interview topic list, the qualitative data analysis methodology, the survey (in English and Dutch) and anonymized raw survey data (http://hdl.handle.net/10411/5LJOGH) are provided as well. This data-in-brief article accompanies the paper “Variation in prevention of child maltreatment by Dutch child healthcare professionals” by Simeon Visscher and Henk van Stel [1].
Highlights
Practice variation amongst preventive child healthcare professionals in the prevention of child maltreatment in the Netherlands: Qualitative and quantitative data
Data is included in this article, full survey data available at https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId 1⁄4hdl:10411/5LJOGH Variation in prevention of child maltreatment by Dutch child healthcare professionals (Child Abuse & Neglect 70 (2017) 264–273)
Lists 38 topics that interviewed experts believe are vital in the prevention of child maltreatment, yet are not commonplace at the moment
Summary
Medicine Prevention of child maltreatment by preventive child healthcare professionals (physicians and nurses) Tables, text file, graph Semi-structured interviews, followed by an online questionnaire. Data is included in this article, full (anonymized) survey data available at https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId 1⁄4hdl:10411/5LJOGH Variation in prevention of child maltreatment by Dutch child healthcare professionals (Child Abuse & Neglect 70 (2017) 264–273). Lists 38 topics that interviewed experts believe are vital in the prevention of child maltreatment, yet are not commonplace at the moment. Provides response distributions for each questionnaire item separately Can be used to prioritize specific quality improvement efforts May inspire other practice variation studies, because the data provides a frame of reference and extra insight into our methods enhances reproducibility of each step during the process. Topics emerging from the qualitative analysis are listed, which the experts considered important in the prevention of child maltreatment, yet, of which they expected a large amount of practice variation would be present.
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