Store Safely: Rural Firearm Injury Prevention for Families

University of Michigan

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Firearm Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Store Safely

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT06719713

HUM00250518

1 R01CE003629-01-00 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

1R01CE003629-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 600 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
• English-speaking
• Have a child under 18 living at home
• Own at least one firearm
• Reside in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (UP)
• Access to a computer/mobile device and wifi
• Have sufficient information about household storage to complete surveys

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to be consented in English
• Lack of firearm in the home
• No child in the home
• Residence outside the UP
• No access to technology
• Previously enrolled in 2020 pilot project

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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600 participants in 2 patient groups

Store Safely

Experimental group

Description:

The Store Safely arm (consisting of a community sample) will receive the Store Safely intervention, usual community-based care, and 988 suicide and crisis lifeline number and a publicly available safe storage information resource numbers.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Store Safely

Waitlist control

No Intervention group

Description:

The waitlist control group (consisting of a community sample) will not receive the intervention during the clinical trial but will be offered 988 suicide and crisis lifeline number and a publicly available safe storage information resource numbers. Following the clinical trial they will have access to the Store Safely intervention.