Mental health and violence in children and adolescents

S Kemal, A Nwabuo, J Hoffmann - Pediatric Clinics, 2023 - pediatric.theclinics.com
In summary, the relationships between mental health and violence in youth are complex.
Although some mental health conditions are associated with violence perpetration, most …

Youth exposure to endemic community gun violence: a systematic review

P Bancalari, M Sommer, S Rajan - Adolescent research review, 2022 - Springer
Community gun violence persists as a daily reality for many youth in low-income urban
communities. While most gun violence research has focused on the direct victims of firearm …

Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study

JP Schleimer, CD McCort, AB Shev, VA Pear… - Injury …, 2021 - Springer
Background Firearm violence is a significant public health problem in the United States. A
surge in firearm purchasing following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic may have …

Inequities in community exposure to deadly gun violence by race/ethnicity, poverty, and neighborhood disadvantage among youth in large US cities

N Kravitz-Wirtz, A Bruns, AJ Aubel, X Zhang… - Journal of urban …, 2022 - Springer
Understanding the burden of gun violence among youth is a public health imperative. While
most estimates are based on direct and witnessed victimization, living nearby gun violence …

Association of neighborhood gun violence with mental health–related pediatric emergency department utilization

A Vasan, HK Mitchell, JA Fein, DG Buckler… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Many children and adolescents in the United States are exposed to
neighborhood gun violence. Associations between violence exposure and children's short …

Mental health outcomes from direct and indirect exposure to firearm violence: a cohort study of nonfatal shooting survivors and family members

LA Magee, MC Aalsma, JD Fortenberry, S Gharbi… - Journal of Criminal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Firearm violence is a public health crisis in the US. Beyond the survivor, firearm
violence also impacts family members and communities of firearm violence survivors …

Community gun violence and functional disability: an ecological analysis among men in four US cities

DC Semenza, R Stansfield - Health & Place, 2021 - Elsevier
This study uses data on neighborhoods in four US cities over five years to examine the
relationship between fatal and non-fatal gun violence and rates of functional disability …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneous effects of spatially proximate firearm homicide exposure on anxiety and depression symptoms among US youth

SAL Buggs, X Zhang, A Aubel, A Bruns… - Preventive …, 2022 - Elsevier
The burden of firearm homicide in the United States is not evenly distributed across the
population; rather, it disproportionately affects youth in disadvantaged and marginalized …

Suicide versus homicide firearm injury patterns on trauma systems in a study of the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB)

CW Foote, XL Doan, C Vanier, B Cruz, B Sarani… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Firearm related mortality in the USA surpassed all other developed countries. This study
hypothesizes that injury patterns, weapon type, and mortality differ between suicide groups …

Addressing mental health needs of secondary homicide survivors through a social determinants of health framework

LA Magee, D Semenza, S Gharbi… - Homicide …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on a social determinants of health framework, death records and Medicaid data
were linked at the individual and family level to examine mental health outcomes among …