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Store Safely: Rural Firearm Injury Prevention for Families

Description

The researchers are testing a firearm safety prevention strategy tailored for families with children who reside in a rural area. Researchers hypothesize that the intervention will lead to improvements in household firearm storage.

Conditions

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The researchers are testing a firearm safety prevention strategy tailored for families with children who reside in a rural area. Researchers hypothesize that the intervention will lead to improvements in household firearm storage.

Store Safely: Rural Firearm Injury Prevention for Families

Store Safely: Rural Firearm Injury Prevention for Families

Condition
Firearm Injury
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Ann Arbor

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109

Negaunee

Marquette County Health Department, Negaunee, Michigan, United States, 49866

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

  • * Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
  • * English-speaking
  • * Have a child under 18 living at home
  • * Own at least one firearm
  • * Reside in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP)
  • * Access to a computer/mobile device and wifi
  • * Have sufficient information about household storage to complete surveys
  • * Unable to be consented in English
  • * Lack of firearm in the home
  • * No child in the home
  • * Residence outside the UP
  • * No access to technology
  • * Previously enrolled in 2020 pilot project

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Michigan,

Cynthia Ewell Foster, Ph.D., PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Michigan

Study Record Dates

2026-09