Violent Experiences and Patterns of Firearm Ownership From Childhood to Young Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Young adults in their 20s are at high relative risk for self- and other-directed firearm injury, but little is known about gun access patterns for this group.

Objective

To describe the longitudinal patterns of firearm access from childhood to young adulthood and to estimate whether violence experienced as a child or as an adult is associated with gun ownership in young adulthood.

Design, setting, and participants

The Great Smoky Mountains Study included participants from 11 contiguous, mostly rural counties in the Southeastern US. The first wave was completed in 1993 and the most recent in 2019. Periodic survey data were gathered in adolescence through participants' late 20s. In 2023, adjusted Poisson regression with incident rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% CIs

SUBMITTER: Caves Sivaraman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10585415 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature