Adolescents and Firearms: A California Statewide Survey

Sorenson, Susan B.; Vittes, Katherine A.

doi:10.2105/ajph.94.5.852

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“…Firearms are present in the homes of between one fifth and one third of American children and adolescents (DuRant et al, 2007; Forbis et al, 2007; Schuster, Franke, Bastian, Sor, & Halfon, 2000; Sorenson & Vittes, 2004). Analyzing data from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey and its Year 2000 objectives supplement, Schuster and colleagues found that 35% of homes with children younger than age 18 years contained at least one firearm (Schuster et al, 2000); more recently, Coyne-Beasley, Miles, Lees, Proescholdbell, and Ford (2012) reported that 40% of North Carolina homes with children between the ages 0 and 18 surveyed in 2008 contained at least one firearm.…”

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“…Although some data are available (Coyne-Beasley et al, 2012; DuRant et al, 2007; Ikeda, Dahlberg, Kresnow, Sacks, & Mercy, 2003; Schuster et al, 2000; Sorenson & Vittes, 2004), there is still limited understanding of the extent to which firearm ownership, reasons for owning, and storage practices vary by sociodemographic factors and how reasons for ownership relate to storage practices in homes with children. Differences in race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) are reported in multiple domains of health-related risk behaviors (Myers, 2009), and such differences may exist also in firearm ownership and storage practices.…”

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Prevalence and Correlates of Firearm Ownership in the Homes of Fifth Graders

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Firearms in the home are associated with increased injury risk, especially when loaded and unlocked. In this study, 5,010 fifth-graders and their caregivers in three U.S. metropolitan areas participated in the 2004-2006 Healthy Passages study on adolescent health. Firearm ownership and storage patterns were examined by four self-reported sociodemographic characteristics (child’s race/ethnicity, child’s gender, family socioeconomic status, and study site) and reasons for ownership. Eighteen percent (n = 880) of the families reported firearms in the home. Families with African American and Hispanic children had lower odds of owning firearms than families with non-Hispanic White children. The most common reasons for ownership were protection from crime and hunting. Six percent (n = 56) of the families with firearms stored at least one firearm unlocked, assembled, without a trigger lock, and with unlocked ammunition. Compared with families with non-Hispanic White children, families with African American children engaged in safer storage practices. Results can inform childhood firearm injury prevention activities.

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“…Previous work using the CHIS survey found that a lower proportion of CHIS respondents reported smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, or using drugs than did respondents to the California Student Survey, a legislatively mandated survey of 7th, 9th, and 11th grade students from a representative sample of public and private secondary schools in California. 62 Whether responses about risk taking behavior around guns in our survey is similarly low is not known.…”

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Unsupervised firearm handling by California adolescents

Miller

Hemenway²

2004

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Objective:Relatively little is known about the behavior of adolescents around firearms. The present investigation was undertaken to estimate the proportion of community-residing adolescents who report that they have ever handled a gun without adult knowledge or supervision.Methods:A random digit dial interview was conducted with 5801 California adolescents as part of the California Health Interview Survey. Respondents were asked whether they have ever held a gun and whether they have ever done so without adult knowledge or supervision. Study design and population weights were applied to these data. In addition, adolescents’ reports about the most recent unsupervised handling incident were coded to ascertain what they were doing with the gun as well as with whom and where the incident occurred.Results:One third (33%) of California adolescents report that they have handled a firearm; 5% report that they have done so without adult knowledge or supervision. Half (49%) of all unsupervised handling involved shooting and only 11% occurred in the respondent’s home. Several demographic variables (being male, African American, living in a rural area) and risk behaviors (smoking, drinking, being the victim of a gun related threat), as well as having a gun in the home and parents not knowing the adolescent’s whereabouts in the afternoon were each associated with unsupervised gun handling.Conclusions:Unsupervised gun handling is associated with other health risk behaviors. Unsupervised gun handling typically involves shooting the gun and usually occurs with friends, away from the home.

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“…8 Readers interested in prevalence data and multivariate analyses of the adolescents' responses about whether there is a gun in the home, as well as whether the teen has his or her own gun, close friends have a gun in their home or of their own, and perceptions of peers' gun ownership, are referred to Sorenson and Vittes (2004). the 67 respondent pairs in which the adolescent lived with neither parent, the 25 respondent pairs in which the adolescent was described as living with one married parent, and the 5 pairs for which living arrangements were not ascertained.…”

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“WE'VE GOT A GUN?”: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents about household firearms

Sorenson

Cook

2007

Journal Community Psychology

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Firearms are a leading cause of mortality among adolescents, and the guns that adolescents use to harm themselves or others often come from their own homes. In this statewide, multi-language, community-based survey of 5,704 co-residing pairs of adolescents and their parents, we asked about guns in the home and compared their responses. The proportions of parents and adolescents responding affirmatively were similar: 25.7% and 26.8%, respectively, for any guns; 15.0% and 13.2%, respectively, for handguns. A paired analysis documented substantial agreement for whether there was any gun in the home and less agreement about whether there was a handgun in the home. The amount of agreement and disagreement was related to household composition and gender of the respondents. The disagreement was substantial for some groups (e.g., when boys residing in households containing a single mother and no other adults reported that there was a gun in the home, 64.8% of their mothers said that there was not a gun in the home). Implications for research and intervention are discussed. Firearms are a leading cause of mortality among adolescents, and the guns that adolescents use to

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Adolescents and Firearms: A California Statewide Survey

Cited by 19 publications

References 47 publications

Prevalence and Correlates of Firearm Ownership in the Homes of Fifth Graders

Prevalence and Correlates of Firearm Ownership in the Homes of Fifth Graders

Unsupervised firearm handling by California adolescents

“WE'VE GOT A GUN?”: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents about household firearms

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