Motivations for firearm possession and storage practices among urban young adults: differences between parents and non-parents

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• Alternative Title:
  Inj Prev
• Personal Author:
  Sokol, Rebeccah Lyn ; Schmidt, Carissa ; Miller, Alison L ; Walton, Maureen A ; Zimmerman, Marc ; Resnicow, Kenneth ; Cunningham, Rebecca M ; Carter, Patrick M
• Description:
  Objectives
  
  To evaluate motivations for firearm possession among urban young adults and determine if differences emerge between parents and non-parents, and to identify if storage practices differed according to motivation for firearm possession and parenting status.
  
  Methods
  
  We used cross-sectional data among young adults seeking urban emergency department treatment at Hurley Medical Center between 2017 and 2018. Our analyses, completed in 2020, included 194 firearm-possessing young adults, 95 of whom were young parents.
  
  Results
  
  Firearm-possessing parents were more likely to have a firearm for protection, than for any other motivation, compared with firearm-possessing non-parents (OR: 2.38, 95% CI 1.06 to 5.46). A significant interaction between parenting status and motivation for possession indicated the association between protective motivations and locked storage was significantly different between parents and non-parents, whereby there was a decreased odds of locked storage among non-parents who were motivated to possess a firearm for protection compared with any other motivation, but this association did not exist for parents (interaction OR=10.57, p<0.05).
  
  Conclusion
  
  Parental motivation for possessing a firearm most often lies in the desire to protect families. This motivation, however, does not necessitate unsafe storage.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cross-Sectional Studies Emergency Service, Hospital Firearms Humans Motivation Parents Young Adult
• Source:
  Inj Prev. 27(5):409-412
• Pubmed ID:
  32912966
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7943649
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  F32 HD100021/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K23 DA039341/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE003085/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CE002698/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7c8d0e05474db4ddd1c44e201cd7ebfe5cb3f372396fcbffbc5e27864ae6bf80d1aef2d360d2bf2ca0cef1c586e5c6e7b4aefbde267926a9ce0d482b51233fb9
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