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Fig. 1 | Injury Epidemiology

Fig. 1

From: Child abuse and neglect experts’ determination of when a child being left home alone constitutes child neglect

Fig. 1

Percent of respondents who considered the indicated age as child abuse, if the child was left home alone for 4 h. The n value for each scenario was 184, unless indicated otherwise. Panels: (a) comparison of scenarios involving an uninjured child in the absence (closed circles) and presence (closed squares, n = 183) of a “home alone” law covering the selected age; (b) comparison of scenarios involving a child that sustained an injury while home alone in the absence (closed circles) and presence (closed squares) of a “home alone” law; (c) comparison of scenarios where the child was (closed squares) or was not (closed circles) injured and there was no “home alone” law; (d) comparison of scenarios where the child was (closed squares) or was not (closed circles) injured and there was a “home alone” law covering the selected age. Asterisks (*) indicate statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) for pairwise comparisons

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