by Shannon | Dec 15, 2022
Objectives: To assess an educational intervention (BeSMART) for parents of hospitalized children on behaviors, beliefs, and knowledge about firearm safety. Methods: A randomized controlled, 3-arm preintervention and postintervention study compared BeSMART video...
by Shannon | Nov 30, 2022
In this paper, we document the social patterning of recent gun purchases to advance a contemporary social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race. We employ cross-sectional survey data from the 2020 Health, Ethnicity and Pandemic Study, which included a national sample...
by Shannon | Nov 30, 2022
Recent incidents of gun violence have raised questions about public access to “military-style” firearms and the need for more-restrictive forms of gun control. Proponents of more-restrictive forms of gun regulation argue that such measures will help combat the...
by Shannon | Nov 30, 2022
This study examines how parenting practices might relate to home gun storage practices, even after accounting for sociodemographic correlates found in past research. First, parenting practices of personal gun owners, household gun owners, and nonowners are compared....
by Shannon | Nov 30, 2022
Firearm storage method is a potentially modifiable risk factor for suicide. Using data from a large, multi-state survey, we sought to determine whether there is an association between mental health and household firearm storage practices, and characterize that...
