Developing and testing the predictive validity of household firearm storage measures: insights from rural Alaska.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Measuring change in firearm storage is paramount to evaluating if interventions influence storage. Yet, there is little empirical basis for how to measure this change. This methodology study compared three different firearm storage measures using data from the Family Safety Net trial (n=46), a randomised controlled trial among firearm-owning adults in a rural Alaska Native community to encourage unloaded and locked firearm storage.

Methods

The team compared baseline and 1-month follow-up measures of household firearm storage: (1) cumulative firearm accessibility, (2) average firearm accessibility, and (3) number of unlocked firearms. All measures included information about locking status; the cumulative and average firearm accessibility measures incorporated add

SUBMITTER: Sokol R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11925665 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature