Recent Publications
Maltreatment History and Weapon Carrying among Early Adolescents (Lewis et al., 2007) - This study examines the role of maltreatment in weapon carrying among 12-year-old youth. Participants reported their physical and sexual abuse history and provided responses to items assessing perceived need for a weapon and weapon carrying. Read more…
LONGSCAN in the News
Dr. Desmond Runyan has headed the medical school's Department of Social Medicine and headed the state's system to evaluate abused and battered children. All the while, he treated the youngest patients shuttled into UNC-CH.
"It's such a privilege to be able to care for patients and their families," Runyan says. "Plus, I get to have stand-up comedians walk into my office. Kids have such charm and humor and spirit." Read more…
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The Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center (CSCC) is a division within the Department of Biostatistics of the School of Public Health at the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As the coordinating center for a number of multi-center studies, it provides statistical, data management, quality assurance, and study management services. The Research Division is responsible for executing the CSCC's study management for those studies with active development and for providing professional-level support for publication activities. The Data Base Management and Data Entry System programming groups are responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of data management systems. The Statistical Computing group is responsible for executing the data analyses required for the publications and quality control responsibilities.
The LONGSCAN CSCC project staff includes Linda Hartig, Ashley Bizzell, Ravi Mathew, Climmon Walker, Hope Bryan, Kathy Roggenkamp, Terri Lewis, and Shrikant Bangdiwala. Together these staff members, provide and oversee data entry and data management services, data documentation, statistical computing activities, and statistical analysis consultation. For additional information regarding the CSCC please contact Terri Lewis.
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