Mental Health Comorbidities, Household Firearm Ownership, and Firearm Access Among Children

Mental Health Comorbidities, Household Firearm Ownership, and Firearm Access Among Children, in Pediatrics (with a video abstract!)

key takeaway: "In the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Social Development study sample, approximately 20% of children lived in a firearm-owning household and 5% of all children reported easy firearm access. In non–firearm-owning households, children with diagnosed lifetime suicidality were 2.48 times more likely (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.50–4.10) than their counterparts to report easy firearm access. In firearm-owning households, children of caregivers who self-reported any mental health history or externalizing problems were 1.67 times (95% CI, 1.10–2.54) and 2.28 times (95% CI, 1.55–3.37) more likely than their counterparts to report easy firearm access."