Within-Person Variability in Firearm Carriage Among High-Risk Youth.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Youth who carry firearms-and peers that surround them-are at increased risk for violent injuries. Because firearm carriage behaviors can change over time within an individual, it is important to identify individual and social-contextual determinants that explain this within-person variability in carriage.

Methods

The authors identified individual and social-contextual determinants of firearm carriage in the past 6 months using multilevel logistic models on 5 waves of panel data from the Flint Youth Injury Study (n=597; ages 14-24 years), collected in 2009-2011 and analyzed in 2019.

Results

Regarding within-person effects, when an individual had more positive peer affiliations than their average, their odds of carrying a firearm decreased (OR=0.88; 95% CI=

SUBMITTER: Sokol RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7483893 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature