ArticleAnnals of general psychiatry2008
Correlates of weapon carrying among high school students in the United States.
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- Age at first alcohol use and weapon carrying among adolescents: Findings from the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Rates and correlates of risky firearm behaviors among adolescents and young adults treated in an urban emergency department.Preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Weapon-carrying is associated with more permissive gambling attitudes and perceptions and at-risk/problem gambling in adolescents.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2019Article
- Adolescent Obesity and Weapon Carrying at School.Journal of crime and justice · 2019Article
- Gun carrying among freshmen and sophomores in Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles public schools: the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2007-2013.Injury epidemiology · 2018Article
- Violence Related Behaviors and Weapon Carrying Among Hispanic Adolescents: Results from the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2001-2015.Journal of community health · 2018Article
- Violence and related factors among high school students in semirural areas of Eskisehir.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2018Article
- Weapon carrying and psychopathic-like features in a population-based sample of Finnish adolescents.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2016Article
- Using the theory of planned behavior to predict aggression and weapons carrying in urban African American early adolescent youth.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2015Article
- Weapon carrying, physical fighting and gang membership among youth in Washington state military families.Maternal and child health journal · 2014Article
- Mediation by peer violence victimization of sexual orientation disparities in cancer-related tobacco, alcohol, and sexual risk behaviors: pooled youth risk behavior surveys.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Physical and emotional health problems experienced by youth engaged in physical fighting and weapon carrying.PloS one · 2013Article
- Correlates of handgun carrying among adolescents in the United States.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2012Article
- Bullying as a mediator of relationships between adiposity status and weapon carrying.International journal of public health · 2012Article
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Abstract
backgroundDeaths and injuries arising from interpersonal violence among adolescents are major public health concerns in the United States. The bearing of weapons among adolescents is a critical factor in many of these deaths and injuries.
methodsA secondary analysis of the 2005 United States Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System Survey data was carried out to examine the variables associated with self-reported history of weapon carrying on school property among high school students. We used logistic regression analysis to assess the associations.
resultsOf the 13,707 respondents who participated in the survey, 10.2% of males and 2.6% of females reported carrying a weapon on school property. In multivariate logistic regression analysis, males were more likely to report having carried a weapon than females (odds ratio (OR) = 5.58; 95% confidence interval (CI) [4.23, 7.62]). Self-reported race/ethnicity was also associated with weapon carrying. Other variables positively associated with weapon carrying at school were substance use (OR = 1.77; 95% CI [1.16, 2.68]), depression (OR = 1.44; 95% CI [1.10, 1.89]), suicidal ideation (OR = 1.64; 95% CI [1.23, 2.19]), having had property stolen or deliberately damaged at school (OR = 1.55; 95% CI [1.21, 1.98]), having been raped (OR = 1.70; 95% CI [1.22, 2.37]), having been threatened or injured with a weapon on school property (OR = 2.19; 95% CI [1.63, 2.95]), and having engaged in physical fighting (OR = 2.02; 95% CI [1.56, 2.63]).
conclusionThis research identifies factors that are associated with weapon bearing among adolescents in the United States. These factors may be important in the design of interventions aimed at improving school safety and adolescent health.
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