Effectiveness of gun-safety counseling and a gun lock giveaway in a Hispanic community

Author: Carbone, P. S. / Clemens, C. J. / Ball, T. M.
Publication: Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med
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Topics: Education/Counseling Ethnicity Ownership Storage
Keywords: Accident Prevention/ methods Arizona/ethnology COUNSELING Child HISPANIC Americans
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At a predominantly (60%) Hispanic pediatric clinic, 151 gun-owning families were identified and participated in the study. Participants were divided into two groups: one received gun-safety counseling, a gun-safety brochure, and a free gun lock (intervention) and the other received usual anticipatory guidance (control). Of those who received the intervention, 61.6% of the families removed all guns from their homes or improved their gun storage safety practice in some way as compared to 26.9% of the control families. Of those who continued to keep guns in the home, 26.0% of the intervention group improved the use of locked storage of guns compared with 3.1% of those the controls.