{"id":119,"date":"2021-02-08T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/?post_type=project&#038;p=119"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T20:33:45","slug":"culture-longitudinal-patterns-and-safety-promotion-of-handgun-carrying-among-rural-adolescents-implications-for-injury-prevention","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/research\/projects\/culture-longitudinal-patterns-and-safety-promotion-of-handgun-carrying-among-rural-adolescents-implications-for-injury-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture, Longitudinal Patterns, and Safety Promotion of Handgun Carrying Among Rural Adolescents: Implications for Injury Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project aims to identify the contexts, antecedents, and consequences of handgun carrying among adolescents who live in rural communities in order to inform culturally appropriate and community-specific interventions. The study will focus on communities where high levels of firearm access and mortality, cultural influences, attitudes, and risks associated with youth handgun carrying are understudied and underserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project will use existing data and collect new data from rural adolescents to:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Identify opportunities and barriers in firearm injury prevention by improving our understanding of the cultural context of handgun carrying among rural adolescents.<\/li>\n<li>Determine specific developmentally salient points of intervention by characterizing patterns of handgun carrying in rural communities from early adolescence to young adulthood.<\/li>\n<li>Examine individual and social-developmental factors that distinguish patterns of handgun carrying in rural communities from early adolescence to young adulthood.<\/li>\n<li>Test the effect of the Communities That Care prevention system on developmental patterns of handgun carrying among adolescents living in rural communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal of this study is to provide actionable evidence for informing strategies that can prevent firearm-related injury and promote safety among adolescents in rural communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work will be conducted through a collaboration with investigators from the UW\u2019s School of Public Health, the Social Development Research Group, Washington State University, Arizona State University, and Seattle Children\u2019s Research Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project aims to identify the contexts, antecedents, and consequences of handgun carrying among adolescents who live in rural communities in order to inform culturally appropriate and community-specific interventions. The study will focus on communities where high levels of firearm access and mortality, cultural influences, attitudes, and risks associated with youth handgun carrying are understudied&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/research\/projects\/culture-longitudinal-patterns-and-safety-promotion-of-handgun-carrying-among-rural-adolescents-implications-for-injury-prevention\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","funding_sources":[],"people":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-119","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"funding_sources","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/funding_sources?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"people","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sdrg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}