CRIS Linkage with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Census Data
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
235847
Contact name
Jayati Das-Munshi
Contact email
Research summary
CRIS Linkage with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Census Data
REC name
South Central - Oxford C Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/SC/0003
Date of REC Opinion
31 Jan 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
In this application we are seeking approval to link mental health records from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) with UK Census data, held by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), to enable provision of an anonymised data resource for research purposes. A cohort of people with relevant clinical diagnoses and clinical information will be linked to their data from the UK census from 2001 and 2011. SLaM is a large mental health trust covering a geographic catchment of four London boroughs (Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, and Croydon) and a population of around 1.2 million residents. SLaM also provides a range of national specialist services accessed across England. The ONS census runs every ten years and surveys all residents in England and Wales. The census asks after individual-level and household-level circumstances and includes questions around employment/ occupation and worklessness, education, tenure/ type of property, access to household vehicles and heating, number of persons resident in the household, carers, self-rated health and disability, migration, citizenship and ethnicity, language, and religion.
Research programme
The database will support a range of projects examining the relationship between social and economic factors and mental disorders: 1. Health inequalities in ethnic minority service users with severe mental illness 2. Social and economic predictors of illness course and mortality in people with severe mental illness 3. Maternal near-miss events in a population of women with severe mental illness 4. Self-harm in the perinatal period: prevalence, risk factors and completed later suicide in mental healthcare service users 5. Inequalities in secondary mental health use 6. Access and treatment inequalities Child and Adolescent Mental illness 7. Social predictors of functional and organic mental disorders, mental health service use and mortality in older adults
Research database title
CRIS Linkage with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Census Data
Establishment organisation
Office for National Statistics (ONS),
Establishment organisation address
Segensworth Road,
Fareham,
Hampshire
PO15 5RR