Preventing Firearm Violence in Youth: A Hospital-based Prevention Strategy

Description

The goal of the study is to understand if hospital-based violence interventions are effective for reducing youth violence among violently injured youth. This study will allow researchers to learn more about the intervention's effectiveness. The researchers also want to understand if the violence intervention impacts other behaviors, such as firearm use, drug use, aggression, risky behaviors, and rates of violent re-injury.

Conditions

Violence in Adolescence

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The goal of the study is to understand if hospital-based violence interventions are effective for reducing youth violence among violently injured youth. This study will allow researchers to learn more about the intervention's effectiveness. The researchers also want to understand if the violence intervention impacts other behaviors, such as firearm use, drug use, aggression, risky behaviors, and rates of violent re-injury.

Preventing Firearm Violence in Youth: A Hospital-based Prevention Strategy

Preventing Firearm Violence in Youth: A Hospital-based Prevention Strategy

Condition
Violence in Adolescence
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Richmond

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23298

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Youth are aged 10-17 years and their adult caregivers are aged 18 years and older
  • 2. Receiving treatment in the hospital for a violence-related injury (e.g., gunshot wound) or referred to BTG/IVPP services
  • 3. English speaking
  • 4. Eligible for BTG services (which includes living within the BTG catchment area for the hospital; Richmond City and neighboring counties)
  • 1. Youth are \< 10 years old
  • 2. Youth are \> 18 years old
  • 3. Prisoners

Ages Eligible for Study

10 Years to 17 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Virginia Commonwealth University,

Nicholas Thomson, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Virginia Commonwealth University

Study Record Dates

2025-05