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Follow-up Gun Study: Can Safety Videos Mitigate Interest in Guns in Children?

NCT05257837 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 245

Last updated 2024-11-20

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Summary

The investigators' previous research has shown that children exposed to media characters with guns in movies and video games are more likely to use real guns themselves (e.g., touch them, hold them, pull the trigger). This research tests whether exposure to a gun safety video a week before the study can help counteract dangerous behavior around guns.

Conditions

  • Psychology, Social
  • Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Gun handling behavior

Children will play in an observed room for 20 minutes. Aside from a selection of toys, two real handguns will be placed in a drawer. The handguns have been modified so they cannot fire. Inside the magazine, the handgun contains no bullets. Instead, it contains a sensor that counts the number of times the trigger is pulled with sufficient force to discharge the gun. This allows us to distinguish reliably the children who pull the trigger from those who handle the gun but do not pull the trigger

OTHER

Debriefing

Children and their parents will be debriefed on the actual purpose of the study, including the role of the safety video and how the movie clips were edited.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ohio State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Brad J Bushman, PhD · Ohio State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-02
Primary Completion
2022-10-16
Completion
2022-10-16

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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