Publications by authors named "Joyce Carolyn Graff"
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- The study analyzed data from 2,518 participants in the NIH ECHO Program to assess the reliability of a brief caregiver support and cognitive stimulation scale for infants and toddlers.
- The children in the study had a mean age of 1.51 years, with 48% being female and 43% identifying as Black.
- An analysis plan confirmed the development of a reliable 10-item scale, demonstrating high precision, especially for children with lower cognitive stimulation levels (reliability >0.7).
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFData from the early stage of a novel infectious disease outbreak provide vital information in risk assessment, prediction, and precise disease management. Since the first reported case of COVID-19, the pattern of the novel coronavirus transmission in Wuhan has become the interest of researchers in epidemiology and public health. To thoroughly map the mechanism of viral spreading, we used the patterns of data at the early onset of COVID-19 from seven countries to estimate the time lag between peak days of cases and deaths.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDemocracy and case fatality rate of COVID-19 at early stage of pandemic: a multicountry study.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
February 2022
Many studies have evaluated factors that influence the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in different countries. This multicountry study assessed the influence of democracy and other factors on the case fatality rate of COVID-19 during the early stage of the pandemic. We accessed the World Health Organization, World Bank, and the Democracy Index 2019 databases for data from the 148 countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of developmental and behavioral disorders in a convenience sample of children in an acute care pediatric hospital setting. We hypothesized that hospitalized children would have a higher prevalence of developmental and behavioral disorders than the general population.
Methods: Data for this cross-sectional study were collected during interviews with primary caregivers of 325 children from infancy throughout childhood who were admitted to a general pediatric service.