Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Firearm ownership is strongly related to suicide risk, yet little is known about how much risk declines when ownership ends ("divestment").

Methods

Using data from 523,182 handgun owners, we estimated the effect of divesting and remaining divested versus never divesting on the risk of suicide and firearm-specific suicide. We used pooled logistic regression with inverse probability weighting, adjusting for demographic and area-level measures.

Results

The 5-year risk of suicide death was 25.6 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 15.1, 37.2) per 10,000 persons with divestment and 15.2 (95% CI = 13.2, 17.3) per 10,000 persons with no divestment, corresponding to a risk difference of 10.4 (95% CI = 0.7, 21.1) per 10,000 persons. The 5-year risk of firearm-specific su

SUBMITTER: Swanson SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9719800 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature