Reducing Youth Access to Firearms Through the Health Care Setting

NCT ID: NCT02136225

Last Updated: 2019-04-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 76 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2014-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2018-12-31

Brief Summary

The purpose of this project is to examine the implementation and effectiveness of an intervention, delivered in a health care setting, to decrease home firearm access by youth. The investigators hypothesize that:

1. parents who receive means restriction education provided by their primary care provider will be more likely to report, at the one month and one year follow-up, that they are storing their guns locked compared to parents who do not receive means restriction counseling.

2. parents who receive a free gun locking device(s) will be more likely to report, at the one month and one year follow-up, that they are storing their guns locked compared to parents who receive means restriction counseling alone;

3. parents whose adolescents are assessed at high risk for violence (> 5 on the Violence Injury Protection and Risk Screen (VIPRS)) or depression (>9 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)) will be more likely to report storing their gun(s) locked at the one month follow-up compared to parents whose children are assessed as low risk, regardless of whether they receive the counseling alone or counseling plus free locking devices and 4) youth whose parents receive a free gun locking device(s) will be more likely to report less access to guns, at one year follow-up, compared to parents who receive means restriction counseling alone.

Conditions

Youth Access to Guns in the Home

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Counseling

Intervention: Means restriction counseling. Health care providers will counsel parents on the risks of having a gun, particularly an unlocked gun in the home where youth are present.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Means restriction counseling

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Health care providers will counsel parents on the risks of having a gun, particularly an unlocked gun, in the home where youth are present.

Counseling and locking devices

Intervention: Means restriction counseling and locking devices. Health care providers will counsel parents on the risks of having a gun, particularly an unlocked gun, in the home where youth are present. Parents will also receive locking devices to store their guns securely.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Means restriction counseling

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Health care providers will counsel parents on the risks of having a gun, particularly an unlocked gun, in the home where youth are present.

Control group

Youth in the control group will receive usual care.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Means restriction counseling

Health care providers will counsel parents on the risks of having a gun, particularly an unlocked gun, in the home where youth are present.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patient at the Children's Hospital Colorado in the Adolescent Medicine Clinic
• Scheduled for any type of appointment
• Reports having a gun in the home

Exclusion Criteria

• Adolescent or parent speaks/reads a language other than English or Spanish
• Adolescent has cognitive disabilities
• Adolescent resides in a group home or detention center

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Colorado, Boulder

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Colorado, Denver

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Eric Sigel, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Colorado, Denver

Other Identifiers

2013-MU-CX-0002

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

13-2829

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id