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Julia Thome is first author of Public Health Reports paper

Posted by on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 in News.

Congratulations to PhD candidate Julia Thome on the publication of Reporting of Child Maltreatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Southern State in the United States in Public Health Reports last week, online ahead of print. The paper was co-authored by associate professor Rameela Raman and colleagues at the Vanderbilt Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody, which is within the Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Thome, Raman, and the other members of this team studied how COVID-19 stay-at-home orders may have affected trends in child maltreatment allegations across different socioeconomic groups.

Figure 2 from Thome's paper is a nine-segment graph, described in the caption.
Figure 2 of Thome et al., “Reporting of Child Maltreatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Southern State in the United States”: Segmented regression graph with piecewise segments by case severity (A), allegation severity (B), age of child (C), county-level percentage of households below the federal poverty level (D), county-level percentage of total population unemployed (E), county-level median annual household income (F), county-level percentage of female-headed households (G), county-level percentage of residents with private or public health insurance (H), and county-level percentage of college-educated residents (I) from October 1, 2018, through September 30, 2020, in a southern state in the United States. The dashed vertical line indicates the first day of the statewide COVID-19 stay-at-home order on March 20, 2020.

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