Clinical Screening for Firearm Violence Risk

Firearm Injury Clinical Trial

Official title: Multi-site External Validation and Improvement of a Clinical Screening Tool for Future Firearm Violence

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the proposed work is to harness cutting-edge machine learning methods to optimize prediction of future firearm violence in youth ages 18-24 so that prevention resources can be allocated efficiently.

Clinical Trial Description

Firearm violence is a public health crisis in the United States, and new epidemiological data suggest we may have reached a new endemic level of firearm mortality in recent years. Youth are disproportionately affected by firearm violence, with those age 18-24 being demonstrably the highest risk group. This study will recruit 1,500 youth age 18-24 from urban emergency departments (EDs) in three broadly different locales-Flint, Philadelphia, and Seattle-and administer a baseline survey covering several domains of potential risk factors for future violence, and follow up with those youth at 6- and 12-months to ascertain the primary outcome-firearm violence involvement (as victim or perpetrator, including threats and sub-clinical injuries)-as well as the secondary outcomes: high-risk firearm behaviors, non-firearm violence, and violent injury. This work will generate new insights into the prediction of firearm violence, and will lay the ground for future research involving the development and testing of interventions for interpersonal firearm violence both by identifying potential high-leverage modifiable predictive factors, and by focusing on youth most in need of intervention. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Firearm Injury

• NCT number: NCT05436457
• Study type: Observational
• Source: University of Michigan
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: July 26, 2021
• Completion date: September 30, 2024