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Seasonality of child homicide
Antoinette L Laskey1, Jonathan D Thackeray, Sophia R Grant
1Children's Health Services Research, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Objective:
To determine whether there is seasonal variation (by season and month of year) in homicides among young children.
Study Design:
Homicide deaths in children
Results:
The occurrence of homicide was proportional to the time interval in each category (P=.05). For the total population, there was no statistically significant variation between the expected and observed percentage of homicides by either season or month of calendar year (P=.46 and P=.74, respectively). For the stratified analyses, there was no statistically significant variation between expected and observed percentages of homicides by either season or month of calendar year for either population.
Conclusion:
There is no seasonality to child homicides by month of year or season of year among young children in the examined population.
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