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Reducing Youth Access to Firearms Through the Health Care Setting

NCT02136225 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 76

Last updated 2019-04-30

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Summary

The purpose of this project is to examine the implementation and effectiveness of an intervention, delivered in a health care setting, to decrease home firearm access by youth. The investigators hypothesize that:

1. parents who receive means restriction education provided by their primary care provider will be more likely to report, at the one month and one year follow-up, that they are storing their guns locked compared to parents who do not receive means restriction counseling.
2. parents who receive a free gun locking device(s) will be more likely to report, at the one month and one year follow-up, that they are storing their guns locked compared to parents who receive means restriction counseling alone;
3. parents whose adolescents are assessed at high risk for violence (\> 5 on the Violence Injury Protection and Risk Screen (VIPRS)) or depression (\>9 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)) will be more likely to report storing their gun(s) locked at the one month follow-up compared to parents whose children are assessed as low risk, regardless of whether they receive the counseling alone or counseling plus free locking devices and 4) youth whose parents receive a free gun locking device(s) will be more likely to report less access to guns, at one year follow-up, compared to parents who receive means restriction counseling alone.

Conditions

  • Youth Access to Guns in the Home

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Means restriction counseling

Health care providers will counsel parents on the risks of having a gun, particularly an unlocked gun, in the home where youth are present.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Colorado, Boulder

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eric Sigel, MD · University of Colorado, Denver

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2018-12-31
Completion
2018-12-31

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