Tag: Gun Violence

Survivors and family members of survivors have increased mental health care use

Child firearm homicides have greater odds of involving IPV when precipitated by conflict, crisis, co-occurring with perpetrator suicide

Flawed fingerprint technology allows unauthorized users, including children, to access firearms in the safe

Individuals experiencing recurrent injury are typically young and mostly male, Black, and uninsured

2018 to 2021 saw 41.6 percent increase in firearm death rate; 82.6 percent of deaths were in children aged 15 to 19 years

Authors call the rapid increase in deaths due to unintentional poisonings and firearm homicides a national emergency

Findings based on survey encompassing six clinical contexts involving heightened risk for firearm injury

Children with previous mental health service use, non-Hispanic Whites have higher odds of service use after injury

Intentional interpersonal or bystander injuries accounted for 67.2 percent of the cohort and increased in 2020

Despite burden among socially vulnerable youth, states with restrictive gun laws have lower rates of assault-related firearm deaths