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Addressing the Cultural Challenges of Firearm Restriction in Suicide Prevention: A Test of Public Health Messaging to Protect Those at Risk

Marino, E., Wolsko, C., Keys, S.G., et al.
Archives of Suicide Research: Official Journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research, 2018

This research found that culturally-specific suicide prevention messages along with standard suicide prevention content resulted in respondents being more likely to report taking steps to restrict firearm access during periods of risk.

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Acute Alcohol Intoxication and Suicide: A Gender-stratified Analysis of the National Violent Death Reporting System

Kaplan, M.S., McFarland, B.H., Huguet, N., et al.
Injury Prevention., 2013.

This epidemiological study examined the effect of acute alcohol toxicity on suicidal behaviors, finding that certain demographic features were more prominent in those acutely intoxicated at the time of suicide.

Peer-Reviewed Article

Acute Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Outlets, and Gun Suicide

Branas, C.C., Richmond, T.S., Ten Have, T.R., et al.
Substance Use & Misuse, 2011

This case-control study examined the relationship among acute alcohol consumption, alcohol outlets, and gun suicide in a group of intentionally self-inflected gun injury cases in a major US city.

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Access to Firearms and Risk for Suicide in Middle-Aged and Older Adults

Conwell, Y., Connor, K., Cox, C., et al.
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2002

Older adults are at a high risk for suicide, and this study looks specifically into their suicide risk associated with access to and storage of guns.

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Acceptability and Use of Evidence-Based Practices for Firearm Storage in Pediatric Primary Care

Beidas, R.S., Jager-Hyman, S., Becker-Haimes, E.M., et al.
Academic Pediatrics, 2019

This study examined the use of a Firearm Safety Check intervention by primary care physicians and found that screening for firearms and safe storage was common but not routine.

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AAST Statement on Firearm Injury

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2018

In this statement by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, board leaders challenge government officials to address firearm injury as a public health problem and propose multiple levels of reform.

Peer-Reviewed Article

A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of a Lethal Means Safety Intervention for Young Adults With Firearm Familiarity at Risk for Suicide

Stanley, I. H., Hom, M. A., Sachs-Ericsson, N. J., et al.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2020

This study found that normalizing firearm ownership and emphasizing temporariness of limiting access to firearms during at-risk times can encourage those at increased suicide risk to adhere to clinician recommendations around safety planning.

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A Multicenter Evaluation of a Firearm Safety Intervention in the Pediatric Outpatient Setting

Campbell, B.T., Thaker, S., Fallat, M.E., et al.
Trauma, 2020

The majority of parents who owned and kept guns reported that they would change the way they stored firearms based on a tablet-based questionnaire that included a firearm safety message.

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A Comparison of Intimate Partner Homicide to Intimate Partner Homicide–Suicide One Hundred and Twenty-Four New Mexico Cases

Banks, L., Crandall, C., Sklar, D., Bauer, M.
Violence Against Women , 2008

This study examined cases of female intimate partner homicide–suicide to female intimate partner homicide alone and found that differences in marital relationship, age, blood alcohol, and the use of firearm were risk factors. The results suggest that interventions including removal of firearms can be used in reducing the rate of intimate partner homicide.

Peer-Reviewed Article

#ThisIsOurLane — Firearm Safety as Health Care’s Highway

Ranney, M.L., Betz, M.E., Dark, C.
New England Journal of Medicine , 2019

Following the National Rifle Association's tweet chiding "doctors to stay in their lane," physicians across specialties and the political spectrum respond with the many ways that firearm injuries and deaths affect the medical community and the patients it serves.

External Resource

Protecting America’s Schools

A U.S. Secret Service analysis of targeted school violence from 2008 to 2017 with analysis of threat assessment.

External Resource

EFSGV: Lethal Means Safety Counseling

Facts and recommendations for lethal means safety counseling to help prevent firearm-related injury and death by EFSGV

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