Child Access Prevention Laws and Nonfatal Gun Injuries

DeSimone, Jeffrey; Markowitz, Sara; Xu, Jing

doi:10.4284/0038-4038-2011.333

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“…These findings are consistent with several previous studies of fatal firearm outcomes. 21,27---30, 37 We did not study the effect of child access prevention laws on adult firearm injuries. Presumably, laws mandating reduced firearm access among children and adolescents (e.g., safe storage) may also serve to reduce immediate firearm access by adults.…”

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State Firearm Legislation and Nonfatal Firearm Injuries

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Objectives. We investigated whether stricter state-level firearm legislation was associated with lower hospital discharge rates for nonfatal firearm injuries. Methods. We estimated discharge rates for hospitalized and emergency department–treated nonfatal firearm injuries in 18 states in 2010 and used negative binomial regression to determine whether strength of state firearm legislation was independently associated with total nonfatal firearm injury discharge rates. Results. We identified 26 744 discharges for nonfatal firearm injuries. The overall age-adjusted discharge rate was 19.0 per 100 000 person-years (state range = 3.3–36.6), including 7.9 and 11.1 discharges per 100 000 for hospitalized and emergency department–treated injuries, respectively. In models adjusting for differences in state sociodemographic characteristics and economic conditions, states in the strictest tertile of legislative strength had lower discharge rates for total (incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 0.60; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.44, 0.82), assault-related (IRR = 0.58; 95% CI = 0.34, 0.99), self-inflicted (IRR = 0.18; 95% CI = 0.14, 0.24), and unintentional (IRR = 0.53; 95% CI = 0.34, 0.84) nonfatal firearm injuries. Conclusions. There is significant variation in state-level hospital discharge rates for nonfatal firearm injuries, and stricter state firearm legislation is associated with lower discharge rates for such injuries.

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“…One popular alternative to a linear model is a log-link model, typically Poisson (see, for example, Cheng and Hoekstra, 2013;Crifasi et al, 2015;Cummings et al, 1997;DeSimone, Markowitz, and Xu, 2013;Gius, 2015c;Grambsch, 2008;Hepburn et al, 2006;Kalesan et al, 2016;Lott, 2003;Rosengart et al, 2005;Zeoli and Webster, 2010) or negative binomial (see, for example, Ludwig and Cook, 2000;Roberts, 2009;Sen and Panjamapirom, 2012;Vigdor and Mercy, 2006;Webster and Starnes, 2000;Webster et al, 2004). These models predict the numeric count of the outcomes (firearm deaths) within a state in a given year; however, they include the logarithm of state population size as an offset.…”

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Evaluating Methods to Estimate the Effect of State Laws on Firearm Deaths: A Simulation Study

Schell¹,

Griffin²,

Morral³

2018

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“…For child access prevention laws, we identified five studies sufficiently rigorous to meet our inclusion criteria, and four found these laws to be associated with reduced suicide or self-inflicted injuries among individuals 19 or younger, including statistically significant reductions in three of the studies (Cummings et al, 1997;DeSimone, Markowitz, and Xu, 2013;Gius, 2015;Webster et al, 2004). The fifth study found no evidence for an effect of these laws (Lott and Whitley, 2001).…”

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The Magnitude and Sources of Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts

Morral¹,

Schell²,

Tankard³

2018

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Child Access Prevention Laws and Nonfatal Gun Injuries

Cited by 44 publications

References 15 publications

State Firearm Legislation and Nonfatal Firearm Injuries

State Firearm Legislation and Nonfatal Firearm Injuries

Evaluating Methods to Estimate the Effect of State Laws on Firearm Deaths: A Simulation Study

The Magnitude and Sources of Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts

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