Department of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Campus Box 8116, 660 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
BMC Pediatr. 2022 Jan 7;22(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s12887-021-03101-4.
Firearm ownership is prevalent in the US and many children spend time in areas where firearms are not stored safely. The AAP recommends firearm safety counseling at pediatric well-visits.
We developed and tested six contextual messages to promote safe firearm storage based on: absence of harm, collective appeal to understanding child behavior, pediatrician's authority, evidence-based, fear appeal, and general safety considerations. One hundred four parents who keep firearms at home were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk Prime and viewed video messages and reported behavioral intentions and emotional reactions following each message.
All six contextual messages were perceived as important and believable and increased parents' intentions to follow safety advice provided, but also elicited negative emotions. The authority message elicited more negative emotions and resulted in lower intentions to follow safe storage advice.
Including firearm messages with other child safety advice merits further evaluation. Authority messages should be avoided.
在美国,枪支拥有率普遍较高,许多儿童会在枪支未安全存放的区域活动。美国儿科学会建议在儿科常规就诊时提供枪支安全咨询。
我们根据以下内容制定并测试了六条促进安全枪支存放的情境信息:无害性、集体呼吁理解儿童行为、儿科医生的权威、基于证据、恐惧诉求和一般安全考虑。我们从亚马逊 Mechanical Turk Prime 招募了 104 名家中有枪支的父母,让他们观看视频信息,并在观看每条信息后报告行为意图和情绪反应。
所有六条情境信息都被认为是重要且可信的,并增加了父母遵循安全建议的意愿,但也引起了负面情绪。权威信息引发了更多的负面情绪,导致父母遵循安全储存建议的意愿降低。
将枪支信息纳入其他儿童安全建议值得进一步评估。应避免使用权威信息。