Randomized Trial to Improve Safe Firearm Storage

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effect of providing gun locks to caregivers of children presenting to the emergency department for mental health concerns. The main question it aims to answer is:

• Does the provision of gun locks result in higher rates of securement of all household firearms? Participants will be randomized to receive either lethal means counseling (including summary handout) by study team with the provision of 2 cable-style gun locks or lethal means counseling by study team alone (without provision of gun locks).

Researchers will compare the lethal means counseling with 2 gun locks group to the lethal means counseling alone group to see if it affects self-reported securement of all household firearms, 4 weeks post emergency department encounter.

Conditions

• Firearm Injury
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Suicide and Self-harm
• Mental Health Issue

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Lethal means counseling

Lethal means counseling is a type of safety education that advises securement or removal of potentially hazardous household items such as medications, knives, and firearms. Counseling provided by study team was derived from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center's "Counseling on Access to Lethal Means" training module and the "Store It Safe" campaign from the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Guidance focused on securement of dangerous items in the household, such as medications and firearms, with locking devices-or more preferably removing these items from the home, even if temporarily.

BEHAVIORAL

Provision of Cable-style gun locks

Caregivers were provided 2 (two) SnapSafe Cable Padlock (Item No. 75281), advised on how to use these devices to store firearms safely (including instructions from within the package of the provided gun locks) and were advised to store keys away from the firearm in a location that children would not have access

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ohio Injury Prevention Partnership

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Whitney Strong Organization

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-06-28

Primary Completion

2022-02-10

Completion

2022-02-10

Countries

• United States

Study Locations