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Store Safely: Rural Firearm Injury Prevention for Families

ConditionFirearm Injury
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Michigan

About this trial

The researchers are testing a firearm safety prevention strategy tailored for families with children who reside in a rural area. Researchers hypothesize that the intervention will lead to improvements in household firearm storage.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Provision of signed and dated informed consent form

Age 18 or older

English-speaking

Have a child under 18 living at home

Disqualifiers

Unable to be consented in English

Under the age of 18

Lack of firearm on their property

No child in the home

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Store Safely

    Behavioral

    The Store Safely intervention occurs online and is self-administered. Once directed to the Store Safely website, participants are welcomed and instructed to complete each step of the online program. Upon clicking "Start," participants are taken to Step 1 of the intervention and instructed to review a brief video. Step 2 involves a review of a data infographics. Participants are then directed to the Decision Aid in Step 3. In Step 4, participants are instructed to complete the Family Firearm Storage Action Plan. In Step 5, participants will review another brief video. There will also be an optional step, consisting of a resource page that details local options for obtaining safe storage devices. At the end of each step, participants mark a checkbox to indicate they have completed the intervention activity which facilitates website analytics of participant engagement. Lastly, participants are thanked and provided with details about the final steps of the trial.

Treatment groups

600 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Store SafelyExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Waitlist controlNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Number of firearms stored locked

Measured using a self-report item from the Family Firearm Storage Behaviors Survey (Ewell Foster et al., 2024) administered at 3 months. May range from 1-40 based on pilot data

Time frame
Approximately 3 months
2

Parent Engagement in Harm Reduction Firearm Storage Behaviors Score

Measured using the Family Firearm Storage Behaviors Survey (Ewell Foster et al., 2024) administered at 3 months. The survey is 14 items, endorsed as Y/N. Score range is 0-14.

Time frame
Approximately 3 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Parent Self-Efficacy for Firearm Safety Questionnaire

Time frame
Baseline, Immediate/2-Week
2

Number of firearms unloaded

Measured using a self-report item from the Family Firearm Storage Behaviors Survey (Ewell Foster et al., 2024) administered at 3 months.

Time frame
Approximately 3 months
3

Number of firearms unlocked and loaded

Measured using a self-report item from the Family Firearm Storage Behaviors Survey (Ewell Foster et al., 2024) administered at 3 months.

Time frame
Approximately 3 months

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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University of Michigan

Lead sponsor

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Collaborator

Marquette County Health Department

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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