Firearms and suicide.
The evidence linking firearms in the home to risk for suicide is reviewed. These data come from epidemiological, case-control, quasiexperimental, and prospective studies. The convergent finding from this wide range of studies is that there is a strong relationship between firearms in the home and risk for suicide, most firmly established in the United States.
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Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O'Hara Street, Suite 112, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. brentda@msx.upmc.edu
D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D005389:Firearms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000092864:Suicide Prevention