Julia Thome is first author of Public Health Reports paper

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May 29, 2024, 11:18 PM

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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