University of Southern Mississippi, United States.
University of Southern Mississippi, United States.
Psychiatry Res. 2018 Nov;269:437-443. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.08.050. Epub 2018 Aug 25.
Exposure to suicide and closeness to a suicide decedent may be relevant to means safety, especially in firearm owners. This study examines how such factors are associated with firearm owners' current firearm storage methods and openness to changing storage methods.
300 firearm owners completed a survey on Amazon's Mechanical Turk program; 176 participants reported being exposed to suicide. Perceived closeness was rated as Not at all close, Close, or Extremely Close.
Those exposed to suicide were more open to secure storage and temporarily storing the firearm with a trusted individual to prevent someone else's suicide. Those close to the suicide decedent were more likely to use secure storage practices, more open to using secure storage methods to prevent their own and someone else's suicide, and had a higher degree of storage methods in place compared to those not close to the decedent.
The sample may not be representative of all American firearm owners exposed to suicide.
Being close to a suicide decedent may influence firearm owners' current storage practices and openness to changing storage methods. Such individuals may better relate to the suicide decedent and realize the significance of using secure storage methods to prevent suicide.
接触自杀事件和与自杀死者亲近可能与自杀手段的安全性有关，尤其是在枪支拥有者中。本研究调查了这些因素如何与枪支拥有者目前的枪支储存方式以及对改变储存方式的开放性相关。
300 名枪支拥有者在亚马逊的 Mechanical Turk 计划中完成了一项调查；176 名参与者报告接触过自杀。感知的亲近程度被评为毫不亲近、亲近或非常亲近。
那些接触过自杀的人更愿意使用安全储存方式，更愿意暂时将枪支存放在可信赖的人手中，以防止他人自杀。与死者亲近的人更有可能使用安全储存方式，更愿意使用安全储存方式来防止自己和他人自杀，并且与那些与死者不亲近的人相比，他们采取了更多的储存方式。
该样本可能不能代表所有接触过自杀的美国枪支拥有者。
与自杀死者亲近可能会影响枪支拥有者目前的储存方式和对改变储存方式的开放性。这些人可能更能理解自杀死者，并意识到使用安全储存方式来预防自杀的重要性。
