Financial barriers and facilitators to secure firearm and medication storage among veterans with elevated suicide risk: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore financial barriers and facilitators to promoting secure firearm and medication storage among patients at risk for suicide.

Methods

Veterans seeking care in Veterans Affairs emergency care settings (N=28) participated in qualitative interviews on barriers and facilitators to adopting secure firearm and medication storage behaviours. Thematic analysis with inductive and iterative coding was used to identify themes pertaining to financial barriers and facilitators. Interviews were double-coded for reliability.

Results

We identified four themes-two related to financial barriers and two to financial facilitators. Barrier-related themes included: (1) the high cost of firearms and medications made owners less likely to dispose of medications, relinquish

SUBMITTER: Khazanov G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11549247 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature