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Within-Person Variability in Firearm Carriage Among High-Risk Youth
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9 2020
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Source: Am J Prev Med. 59(3):386-393
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Alternative Title:Am J Prev Med
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Description:Introduction:
Youth who carry firearms—and peers that surround them—are at increased risk for violent injuries. Because firearm carriage behaviors can change over time within an individual, it is important to identify individual and social-contextual determinants that explain this within-person variability in carriage.
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The authors identified individual and social-contextual determinants of firearm carriage in the past 6 months using multilevel logistic models on five waves of panel data from the Flint Youth Injury Study (n=597; ages 14–24 years), collected in 2009–2011 and analyzed in 2019.
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Regarding within-person effects, when an individual had more positive peer affiliations compared with their average, their odds of carrying a firearm decreased (OR=0.88; 95% CI=0.81, 0.96). Conversely, an individual’s odds of carrying a firearm increased when they had more negative peer affiliations (OR=1.08, 95% CI=1.02, 1.14), experienced more victimization (OR=1.03, 95% CI=1.01, 1.05), perceived greater community violence (OR=1.12, 95% CI=1.05, 1.21), or exhibited greater retaliatory attitudes (OR=1.10, 95% CI=1.01, 1.19) than their average.
Conclusions:
Peer affiliations, victimization, community violence perceptions, and retaliatory attitudes explain within-person variability in firearm carriage. Strategies for reducing carriage among youth should consider individual- and environmental-level interventions to address these individual and social-contextual determinants.
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Pubmed ID:32430221
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC7483893
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