Physician Firearm Ownership As a Predictor of Firearm Injury Prevention Practice

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2000 Oct 13

PMID 11030001

Citations 8

Authors

E C Becher

C K Cassel

E A Nelson

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Abstract

Objectives: This study explored the relation between physicians' gun ownership and their attitudes and practices regarding firearm injury prevention.

Methods: Internists and surgeons were surveyed, and logistic regression models were developed with physicians' personal involvement with firearms (in the form of a gun score) as the primary independent variable.

Results: Higher gun scores were associated with less agreement that firearm injury is a public health issue and that physicians should be involved in firearm injury prevention but with a greater likelihood of reporting the inclusion of firearm ownership and storage as part of patient safety counseling.

Conclusions: Despite being less likely to say that doctors should participate in firearm injury prevention, physician gun owners are more likely than nonowners to report counseling patients about firearm safety.

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