TY - JOUR
T1 - The association of firearm laws with firearm outcomes among children and adolescents
T2 - a scoping review
AU - For the FACTS Consortium
AU - Zeoli, April M.
AU - Goldstick, Jason
AU - Mauri, Amanda
AU - Wallin, Mikaela
AU - Goyal, Monika
AU - Cunningham, Rebecca
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2019/8/15
Y1 - 2019/8/15
N2 - We conducted a scoping review to determine the current state of knowledge and areas for advancements in research on the association of firearm laws with child and adolescent firearm-related outcomes. We queried Scopus, EMBASE, Pubmed, and CJ Abstracts for English language original empirical research articles on policies affecting child and adolescent firearm-related outcomes published between January 1, 1985 and July 1, 2018. Data were abstracted, and methodologic quality assessed. Twenty articles met inclusion criteria. Among the policies studied were child access prevention laws (12 studies) and minimum age restrictions for firearm purchase and possession (4 studies). Outside of child access prevention laws, which are associated with reductions in child and adolescent unintentional and firearm suicide deaths, there is, at best, equivocal evidence of policy effects. This area is understudied, particularly in regard to nonfatal firearm injuries, for which the lack of a national surveillance system hampers research efforts. Further rigorous firearm policy evaluations are needed.
AB - We conducted a scoping review to determine the current state of knowledge and areas for advancements in research on the association of firearm laws with child and adolescent firearm-related outcomes. We queried Scopus, EMBASE, Pubmed, and CJ Abstracts for English language original empirical research articles on policies affecting child and adolescent firearm-related outcomes published between January 1, 1985 and July 1, 2018. Data were abstracted, and methodologic quality assessed. Twenty articles met inclusion criteria. Among the policies studied were child access prevention laws (12 studies) and minimum age restrictions for firearm purchase and possession (4 studies). Outside of child access prevention laws, which are associated with reductions in child and adolescent unintentional and firearm suicide deaths, there is, at best, equivocal evidence of policy effects. This area is understudied, particularly in regard to nonfatal firearm injuries, for which the lack of a national surveillance system hampers research efforts. Further rigorous firearm policy evaluations are needed.
KW - Firearm policy
KW - Homicide
KW - Scoping review
KW - Suicide
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85069984563
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85069984563#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1007/s10865-019-00063-y
DO - 10.1007/s10865-019-00063-y
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31367938
AN - SCOPUS:85069984563
SN - 0160-7715
VL - 42
SP - 741
EP - 762
JO - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
IS - 4
ER -
