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Hear from experts working to reduce firearm injury
The domestic violence fatality review clearinghouse: introduction to a new National Data System with a focus on firearms
A new centralized, national data system that illuminates social and legal circumstances surrounding firearm use in intimate partner homicides.
Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California
Article studying the association between handgun ownership and risk of suicide.
Psychiatrists’ practices and perceptions regarding anticipatory guidance on firearms
Article that assess psychiatrist involvement with anticipatory guidance on firearm safety and their self-efficacy and perceived barriers of firearm counseling.
Physician Documentation of Access to Firearms in Suicidal Patients in the Emergency Department
Cross-sectional study of emergency department patients that aims to quantify emergency physician team documentation of patient access to firearms.
Firearm Storage in Homes With Children With Self-Harm Risk Factors
Article describing firearm storage practices in homes with children who may have self-harm risk factors, such as those with a history of depression, mental health conditions other than depression, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Firearm suicide among youth in the United States, 2004-2015
Article discussing firearm accessibility in children and strategies to limit firearm access in greater risk youth.
Death Rates Due to Suicide and Homicide Among Persons Aged 10–24: United States, 2000–2017
Data from the National Center for Health Sciences (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System show increases in death rates from suicide and homicide.
Firearm Storage Practices Among American Veterans
Study that describes firearm storage practices and correlates of those practices among U.S. Veteran firearm owners to better inform suicide prevention initiatives.
Suicide risk in bipolar disorder during treatment with lithium and divalproex
Retrospective cohort study that compares the suicide risk during treatment with lithium and treatment with divalproex.
The lifetime risk of suicide in schizophrenia: a reexamination
Article that reexamines the lifetime suicide prevalence in patients with schizophrenia.
Contextual Factors Associated With County-Level Suicide Rates in the United States, 1999 to 2016
Article looking at suicide rates during an 18-year period stratified by rural-urban location to understand suicide and targeted suicide prevention efforts.
Characteristics of impulsive suicide attempts and attempters
Article investigating characteristics of impulsive suicide.