Project GRIP: an Illustration of Participatory Action Research With Communities of People Who Own and Use Firearms.

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• Alternative Title:
  Psychological Reports, 2025, v. 128, no. 1: Project GRIP: an Illustration of Participatory Action Research With Communities of People Who Own and Use Firearms.
• Journal Article:
  Psychological Reports
• Personal Author:
  Smith, Phillip N. ; Cordell, Christopher ; Stevens, Laura Taylor ; West, Katie ; Morgan, Savannah T. ; Vallas, Jordan ; Mehari, Krista R
• Description:
  Firearm-related injury and mortality prevention strategies are often incompatible with and potentially ineffective for the very populations at risk. Such incompatibility is reflective of a cultural disconnect between investigators and prevention specialists and those who own and use firearms. The current paper describes Project GRIP, a research study that was guided by the principles of Participatory Action Research (PAR). We present the project as a case-example and demonstration of how PAR principles can inform an approach to partner with firearm owners in injury prevention research. Though PAR is a general approach and not a set of techniques, we describe the strategies we used in the hopes that they may be useful for investigators using PAR with firearm owners. We discuss the project and our approach across different stages of the process, including entering into PAR with firearm owners, building partnerships, developing a shared vision, mutual understanding, and co-learning, building and maintaining positive relationships, and executing the project tasks. The PAR approach and the intentional emphasis on partnership is, in our opinion, vital to ensuring that the perspectives of firearm owners are incorporated into the research literature so that more ecologically valid and potentially effective injury and mortality prevention strategies can be developed and disseminated.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • Firearms
  • Community-Based Participatory Research
  • Wounds, Gunshot
  • Ownership
• Keywords:
  • Firearm Owners
  • Participatory Action Research
  • Firearm-Related Injury Prevention
  • Violence Prevention
  • Suicide Prevention
• Source:
  Psychological Reports, 2025, v. 128, no. 1
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941241246467
• ISSN:
  0033-2941 ; 1558-691X
• Pubmed ID:
  38629414
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC12795240
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  R01 CE003298/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Pages in Document:
  211-239 (23 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  128
• Issue:
  1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/262100/cdc_262100_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 117.13 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:484e18c13518ce3ede63d7421b503e77c271c256e4179226dd88d48366c7e8d3dcaab6077f3a44d146770ddb2c5e113b82dd9551f073f5af402c453c2271f741