Association of Increased Safe Household Firearm Storage With Firearm Suicide and Unintentional Death Among US Youths.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Firearm injury is the second leading cause of death in the United States for children and young adults. The risk of unintentional and self-inflicted firearm injury is lower when all household firearms are stored locked.

Objective

To estimate the reduction in youth firearm suicide and unintentional firearm mortality that would result if more adults in households with youth stored household guns locked.

Design, setting, and participants

A modeling study using Monte Carlo simulation of youth firearm suicide and unintentional firearm mortality in 2015. A simulated US national sample of firearm-owning households where youth reside was derived using nationally representative rates of firearm ownership and storage and population data from the US Census to test a h

SUBMITTER: Monuteaux MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6515586 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature