ReviewJournal of epidemiology and community health2004
Safer storage of firearms at home and risk of suicide: a study of protective factors in a nationally representative sample.
Review in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05657119 (Family Safety Net), which is not on this map. Cited by 67 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Family Safety Net: Developing an Upstream Suicide Prevention Approach to Encourage Safe Firearm Storage in Rural and Remote
Who cites it
67 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Management of Mental Health Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Suicide in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury: Clinical Practice Guideline for Healthcare Providers.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitationGuideline
- The Impact of Lethal Means Counseling on Openness to Out-of-Home Firearm Storage: Results From Project Safe Guard.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2026Trial
- Lethal Means Counseling, Distribution of Cable Locks, and Safe Firearm Storage Practices Among the Mississippi National Guard: A Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial, 2018-2020.American journal of public health · 2021Trial
- Improving firearm storage in Alaska native villages: a randomized trial of household gun cabinets.American journal of public health · 2012Trial
- Children and Firearms in the United States: Parent and Child Reports on Firearms Use, Storage, and Training.Academic pediatricsTrial
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- Establishing Proof-of-Concept for the Feasibility and Implementation of a Point-of-Sale Firearm Safety Counseling Program: A Qualitative Case Study.Health promotion practice · 2026Article
- Predicting Firearm Suicide among US Army Veterans Transitioning from Active Service.Nature. Mental health · 2026Article
- Study design and protocol for a randomized clinical trial investigating a brief fear of uncertainty-focused intervention as an adjunct to project safe guard for military personnel.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2025Article
- Child and Adolescent Firearm-Related Homicide Occurring at Home.JAMA surgery · 2025Article
- Firearm Storage and Firearm Suicide.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- How do active duty army personnel view the relationships between firearms and suicide? The role of sociopsychological factors, firearm ownership status, and lifetime history of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Firearm safe storage practices among firearm owners in rural and urban households.Injury epidemiology · 2025Article
- National Study of Firearm Presence and Storage Practices in Homes of Rural Adolescents.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
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- Testing rurality as a moderator of associations between masculinity constructs, help-seeking, and firearm storage practices.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
- Establishing community partnerships to maintain social connection and healthcare access during an emergency declaration: virtual veterans socials.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Material hardship and secure firearm storage: findings from the 2022 behavioral risk factor Surveillance System.Injury epidemiology · 2024Article
- Correlates of dangerous firearm storage among a representative sample of firearm owners across nine states.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2024Article
- Adolescent firearm suicides in the United States: exploring racial and ethnic differences, 2004-2020.Youth & society · 2024Article
7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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4 authors.
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Abstract
objectiveTo estimate the protective effect of storing firearms locked or unloaded, or both, on the risk of suicide by firearms among people with relatively low intention to die. DESIGN AND
settingCross sectional survey. The 1993 National Mortality Followback Survey of 22 957 deaths in the United States, representing 2.2 million people, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.
participantsDecedent's next of kin answered questions regarding various aspects of decedent's life to supplement information from death certificates. MAIN
resultsCompared with decedents who stored their firearm unlocked or loaded, those who stored their firearms locked or unloaded, or both, were less likely to commit suicide by firearms (locked: OR = 0.39, 95% CI = 0.24 to 0.66; unloaded OR = 0.30, 95% CI = 0.18 to 0.49).
conclusionsThis study further supports the utility of devices and practices intended to reduce the likelihood of unauthorised or impulsive use of firearms.
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