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Hear from experts working to reduce firearm injury
SAFER brief community intervention: a primary suicide prevention strategy to improve firearm and medication storage behaviour
This study examined an intervention called Signpost, Assess, Facts, Emotion, Recommend (SAFER) designed to motivate changes in behavior to securely store firearms and medications to prevent future suicide. It determined the feasability to implement the intervention in community-based settings such as gun shows, and aiming at high risk individuals for suicide such as veterans and middle-aged men.
Gun-Related and Other Violent Crime After Involuntary Commitment and Short-Term Emergency Holds
This article examines the long-term risk of firearm-related and other violent crime in a large sample of adults with serious mental illness in Florida while also exploring policy implications.
Increases in Actual Health Care Costs and Claims After Firearm Injury
This before-after study explored the burden of firearm injury on the healthcare system.
Older Firearm Owners and Advance Planning: Results of a National Survey
A national survey describing the frequency of advance planning to transfer firearms to someone else by older firearm owners if they cannot handle them safely in the future, or pass away.
The Relation Between State Gun Laws and the Incidence and Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States, 1976–2018
This study examined state firearm laws and their separate relationship with the likelihood of a mass public shooting and with the number of fatalities when a mass shooting occurs.
End Family Fire
Resources and recommendations on how to prevent a family fire- a shooting involving an improperly stored or misused gun in the home that results in injury or death.
Safe Firearm Storage: A Call for Research Informed by Firearm Stakeholders
A call to action for needed research informed by firearm stakeholders to help clinicians make acceptable, adoptable recommendations of ways to safely store firearms and reduce risk of injury and mortality.
Physicians and Firearms
Part one of an online course covering the epidemiology of gun violence. The curriculum is developed by medical students to bridge the gap in medical education to address gun violence as a public health epidemic.
California Public Opinion On Health Professionals Talking With Patients About Firearms
Public opinion on whether or not health professionals should discuss firearm safety with their patients varies. This study using data from the 2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey found that most Californians felt that firearm safety discussions with health professionals could be useful in some instances, particularly for patients with risk factors for firearm-related harm.
Safe Storage Infographic (English)
Print this infographic and hang it in your waiting room, exam room, or other clinic spaces to remind patients and clinicians about the importance of safe firearm storage.
Breaking Through Barriers: The Emerging Role of Healthcare Provider Training Programs in Firearm Suicide Prevention
An overview of barriers and recommendations on lethal means safety training for clinicians.
Preventing Suicide Through Better Firearm Safety Policy in the United States
This article summarizes arguments for several recommended statutory modifications to firearm restrictions at the state level for suicide prevention.