Objectives To examine associations of current mental and substance use disorders with self-reported gun ownership and carrying among recently separated US Army soldiers. Veterans have high rates of both gun ownership and mental disorders, the conjunction of which...
Purpose The aim of this investigation was to document the prevalence and correlates of refusing to answer a US federal health survey item about firearms in the household. Design The cross-sectional analysis was conducted with 2004 and 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor...
The aim of this study was to investigate sexual orientation differences in gun ownership and gun safety beliefs among U.S. adults. We used information from the General Social Survey (2010–2016) to assess presence of guns in the household, personal gun ownership, and...
Background The objectives of this study were to determine whether short-term exposure to firearm safety messaging significantly improved (1) firearm storage practices, and (2) attitudes of safe firearm storage behaviors among U.S. veterans, a group at elevated risk...
Objective Intimate partner (IP) problems are risk factors for suicide among men. However, there is little understanding of why some male suicide decedents who had such problems killed their partners before death (i.e., “IP homicide-suicide”), while most of these...
