Trends in firearm death among middle and high-school aged rural and urban adolescents from 2001 to 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Youth are at high risk for firearm-related injury and death. However, research combining children and adolescents into one homogeneous group ignores distinct developmental stages and associated risks. Addressing firearm mortality as a public health crisis requires strategies tailored to developmental stage, injury intent, setting, and cultural context. Given this, the purpose of the current study was to identify changes over time in injury mortality and specifically firearm-related mortality, among middle (11-13 year olds) and high school-aged (14-18 year olds) adolescents in metro and non-metro areas of the United States.

Findings

Crude death rate data were pulled from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web-based Injury Statistics Query

SUBMITTER: Weybright EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12400575 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature