A scoping review of patterns, motives, and risk and protective factors for adolescent firearm carriage

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• Alternative Title:
  J Behav Med
• Personal Author:
  Oliphant, Stephen N. ; Mouch, Charles A. ; Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali ; Hargarten, Stephen ; Jay, Jonathan ; Hemenway, David ; Zimmerman, Marc ; Carter, Patrick M.
• Corporate Authors:
  ACTS Consortium
• Description:
  Firearm carriage is a key risk factor for interpersonal firearm violence, a leading cause of adolescent (age < 18) mortality. However, the epidemiology of adolescent firearm carriage has not been well characterized. This scoping review examined four databases (PubMed; Scopus; EMBASE; Criminal Justice Abstracts) to summarize research on patterns, motives, and underlying risk/protective factors for adolescent firearm carriage. Of 6156 unique titles, 53 peer-reviewed articles met inclusion criteria and were reviewed. These studies mostly examined urban Black youth, finding that adolescents typically carry firearms intermittently throughout adolescence and primarily for self-defense/protection. Seven future research priorities were identified, including: (1) examining adolescent carriage across age, gender, and racial/ethnic subgroups; (2) improving on methodological limitations of prior research, including disaggregating firearm from other weapon carriage and using more rigorous methodology (e.g., random/systematic sampling; broader population samples); (3) conducting longitudinal analyses that establish temporal causality for patterns, motives, and risk/protective factors; (4) capitalizing on m-health to develop more nuanced characterizations of underlying motives; (5) increasing the study of precursors for first-time carriage; (6) examining risk and protective factors beyond the individual-level; and, (7) enhancing the theoretical foundation for firearm carriage within future investigations.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Databases, Factual Ethnicity Female Firearms Humans Juvenile Delinquency Male Protective Factors Risk Factors Socioeconomic Factors Violence Wounds, Gunshot

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• Keywords:
  Carriage Patterns Firearm Motives Risk/Protective Factors Scoping Review
• Source:
  J Behav Med. 42(4):763-810
• Pubmed ID:
  31367939
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7182091
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  K23 DA039341/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CE002698/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; K23DA039341/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 1R24HD087149-01A1/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; R24 HD087149/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:174eb6e2bc2f2835c7e534a4f5e78c28b1c54f0af5ce38e5195e18bd311496df8ed3dcdb31877ffd37d6d413eb1a4bc2bab80561f1ed399761b5666e796681bc
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/122903/cdc_122903_DS1.pdf
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