Household Firearm Ownership and Firearm Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Causal associations between household firearm ownership rates (HFRs) and firearm mortality rates are not well understood.

Objective

To assess the population-level temporal sequencing of firearm death rates and HFRs.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used autoregressive cross-lagged models to analyze HFRs, firearm suicide rates, and firearm homicide rates in the US from 1990 to 2018. The suicide analyses included 16 demographic subgroups of adults, defined by study year, state, sex, race and ethnicity, marital status, and urbanicity. The homicide analyses consisted of adult subgroups living in urban or rural areas. Data analysis was conducted from March to December 2023.

Exposures

Firearm mortality rates and HFRs.

Main outcomes an

SUBMITTER: Morral AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11339659 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature