Healio (10/13, Gramigna) reports, “Interventions that help limit youth access to handguns during moments of crisis may especially benefit rural-remote communities,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data of 59,556 students who participated in the 2019 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey, which was conducted at 256 high schools in Colorado.” The study revealed that “increasing rurality coincided with prevalence of perceived easy access to handguns.” The findings were published online Oct. 8 in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Youth from rural communities at increased risk for firearm-related suicide “Joe Gramigna, Healio, October 13, 2021