The Association Between Gun Ownership and Statewide Overall Suicide Rates
The Association Between Gun Ownership and Statewide Overall Suicide Rates
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DOI：
10.1111/sltb.12346
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发表时间：
2018-04-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Houtsma, Claire
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作者：
Anestis, Michael D.;Houtsma, Claire
大量的研究表明，拥有枪支和自杀之间的联系超出了一系列协变量的影响。我们的目标是通过研究枪支拥有率在多大程度上预测全州范围内的整体自杀率，超越人口统计学，地理，宗教，精神病理学和自杀相关变量的影响，来扩展现有的研究。通过扩展所用协变量的列表，同时考虑这些协变量，并使用更新的数据，我们试图提出一个更严格的检验。枪支拥有量预测了全州的总体自杀率，完整的模型占全州自杀率方差的92%以上。枪支自杀率与总体自杀率之间的相关性明显强于非枪支自杀率与总体自杀率之间的相关性。这些发现支持了这样一种观点，即获得和熟悉枪支是自杀的一个强有力的风险因素。因此，旨在减少枪支可及性和增加枪支安全储存的手段安全措施可能会对全州的整体自杀率产生巨大影响。
An extensive body of research has demonstrated an association between gun ownership and suicide that extends beyond the effects of a range of covariates. We aimed to expand on extant research by examining the extent to which gun ownership predicts statewide overall suicide rates beyond the effects of demographic, geographic, religious, psychopathological, and suicide-related variables. By extending the list of covariates utilized, considering those covariates simultaneously, and using more recent data, we sought to present a more stringent test. Gun ownership predicted statewide overall suicide rates, with the full model accounting for more than 92% of the variance in statewide suicide rates. The correlation between firearm suicide rates and the overall suicide rate was significantly stronger than the correlation between nonfirearm suicide rates and the overall suicide rate. These findings support the notion that access to and familiarity with firearms serves as a robust risk factor for suicide. Therefore, means safety efforts aimed at reducing accessibility and increasing safe storage of firearms would likely have a dramatic impact on statewide overall suicide rates.