Developing implementation strategies for firearm safety promotion in paediatric primary care for suicide prevention in two large US health systems: a study protocol for a mixed-methods implementation study

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-24-2017

Publication Title

BMJ Open

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The promotion of safe firearm practices, or firearms means restriction, is a promising but infrequently used suicide prevention strategy in the USA.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The National Institute of Mental Health-funded Mental Health Research Network (MHRN), a consortium of 13 healthcare systems across the USA, affords a unique opportunity to better understand how to implement a firearm safety intervention in paediatric primary care from a system-level perspective. We will collaboratively develop implementation strategies in partnership with MHRN stakeholders. First, we will survey leadership of 82 primary care practices (ie, practices serving children, adolescents and young adults) within two MHRN systems to understand acceptability and use of the three firearm components of

ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: Study procedures have been approved by the University of Pennsylvania. Henry Ford Health System and Baylor Scott & White institutional review boards (IRBs) have ceded IRB review to the University of Pennsylvania IRB. Results will be submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Medical Subject Headings

Adolescent; Child; Child, Preschool; Evidence-Based Practice; Female; Firearms; Government Programs; Health Promotion; Humans; Male; National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.); Needs Assessment; Primary Health Care; Research Design; Safety; Suicide; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States; Wounds, Gunshot

PubMed ID

28647722

Volume

7

Issue

6

First Page

014407

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