Screening Adolescents in the Emergency Department for Weapon Carriage
dc.contributor.author | Cunningham, Rebecca M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Resko, Stella M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Harrison, Stephanie Roahen | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Zimmerman, Marc A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Stanley, Rachel | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Chermack, Stephen T. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Walton, Maureen A. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-13T19:39:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-13T19:39:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-02 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Cunningham, Rebecca M.; Resko, Stella M.; Harrison, Stephanie roahen; Zimmerman, Marc; Stanley, Rachel; Chermack, Stephen T.; Walton, Maureen A.; (2010). "Screening Adolescents in the Emergency Department for Weapon Carriage." Academic Emergency Medicine 17(2): 168-176. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78627> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1069-6563 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1553-2712 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78627 | |
dc.description.abstract | The objective was to describe the prevalence and correlates of past-year weapon involvement among adolescents seeking care in an inner-city emergency department (ED).This cross-sectional study administered a computerized survey to all eligible adolescents (age 14–18 years), 7 days a week, who were seeking care over an 18-month period at an inner-city Level 1 ED. Validated measures were administered, including measures of demographics, sexual activity, substance use, injury, violent behavior, weapon carriage, and/or weapon use. Zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) regression models were used to identify correlates of the occurrence and past-year frequency of these weapons variables.Adolescents ( n = 2069, 86% response rate) completed the computerized survey. Fifty-five percent were female; 56.5% were African American. In the past year, 20% of adolescents reported knife or razor carriage, 7% reported gun carriage, and 6% pulled a knife or gun on someone. Although gun carriage was more frequent among males, females were as likely to carry a knife or pull a weapon in the past year.One-fifth of all adolescents seeking care in this inner-city ED have carried a weapon. Understanding weapon carriage among teens seeking ED care is a critical first step to future ED-based injury prevention initiatives.ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2010; 17:168–176 © 2010 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Weapon | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Adolescents | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Violence | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Emergency Department | en_US |
dc.title | Screening Adolescents in the Emergency Department for Weapon Carriage | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Medicine (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 20370746 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78627/1/j.1553-2712.2009.00639.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00639.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Academic Emergency Medicine | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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