Opportunities and barriers to engaging caregivers in firearm suicide prevention: findings from focus groups with caregivers of veterans
Providing additional training for healthcare providers and ensuring availability of caregiver-focused LMS resources could be key to increasing caregiver involvement in LMS planning and improving caregivers' role in reducing access to firearms for Veterans at risk of dying by suicide.
Authors
- John Marmion
- Gala True (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6965-8527)
- Katherine MacWilliams
- Dee Blascyk
- Sharon Urbina
- Rachel Moyers
Institutions
- American Red Cross (US)
- Career Point University (IN)
- Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System (US)
- Covington and Burling (US)
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Injury Epidemiology
- Published
- 2025-09-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-025-00612-x
- Primary Topic
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Office of Rural Health