BMJ  2006;332 (4 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7536.0-b

New mothers in UK do use child records booklet

Although use of the personal child health records booklet is lower among mothers living in disadvantaged circumstances, overall the booklet is retained and used by a high proportion of mothers across the UK during their child's first year of life. Walton and colleagues (p 269) analysed interviews with mothers of more than 18 000 children in the millennium cohort study between 2000 and 2002 and found that 89% of mothers from "disadvantaged" areas, and 95% from "advantaged" areas had been able to show the interviewer the booklet. The booklet has benefits that may extend beyond the direct care of individual children, say the authors.

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Use of personal child health records in the UK: findings from the millennium cohort study

Suzanne Walton, Helen Bedford, Carol Dezateux the Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group
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