Purpose To investigate secondary school students’ perceptions of violence in American public schools. Methods Subjects included 726 public school students in grades 7 through 12. A two-stage clustered and stratified (by grade level, region, and location)...
Purpose To determine the incidence and outcomes of firearm injuries in adolescents and the effect of trauma center (TC) designation on their mortality. Methods The National Trauma Data Bank (2010–2016) was queried for all encounters involving adolescents aged...
Purpose Safe firearm storage practices are associated with a lower risk of self-inflicted injury and death. Whether such practices and relevant beliefs differ between households of adolescents with and without mental illness is unknown. Methods We used survey...
We studied the 336 firearm suicides occurring in California in 1997–1999 to persons under age 21. The gun used was most often owned by the victim or a family member living in the victim’s household. Prevention efforts should focus on gun ownership and...
Purpose Although household firearm ownership has been consistently associated with increased suicide rates in the U.S., scant data speak to the type of gun used in U.S. suicides. We address this research gap using data from the National Violent Death Reporting System...
