VIG Data Collection System - DCS

In 2020, the Association for Video Interaction Guidance UK (AVIGuk) was successful in bidding for external funding for an exciting project to establish a ‘smart’, national data collection system to collect VIG pre- and post-intervention data.

 

In 2022, we have secured additional funding to engage services further in using the DCS. The VIG Data Collection System (DCS) has been designed to serve two purposes in improving infant and children’s mental health:

• clinical data regarding individual parent-infant/child dyads that will help the VIG practitioner to assess the effectiveness of the intervention, and make a decision about the need for any further therapeutic input

• outcome data that will enable AVIGuk to improve the delivery of VIG, and its effectiveness, by monitoring the impact of VIG across different services, regions, populations etc.​

 

The DCS is an ambitious project, aiming to provide evaluation data to individual practitioners, and their services, on a national scale. We collect data, pre- and post-VIG intervention, from everyone involved in VIG delivery. Practitioners who are training in VIG are invited to provide anonymised data from the families they are working with, and will be able to access their own data, and data for their service.

 

The DCS data is providing evidence of the short-term, and likely long-term, impact of a brief VIG intervention. Following consultation with perinatal practitioners and experts on what outcome measures are already being used in services, the research team completed an initial survey report (Devyn Glass and Laura Cristescu, 2022).

 

The DCS was expanded in 2024 to include measures for school-aged children, and to include educational data from schools (Charles Baillie and Christina Addenbrooke, 2024). The team devised a user-friendly, GDPR compliant data entry system which can be accessed live in client sessions by all VIG trainees and accredited practitioners.

 

This was revised in 2025 to provide a system that can be used on and off line, and the facility for each organisation to have direct access to their data.

 

Contact AVIGuk if you would like more information about the DCS, and how you/your team can sign up to contributing your data to this important project.