ArticleInjury epidemiology2025
Opportunities and barriers to engaging caregivers in firearm suicide prevention: findings from focus groups with caregivers of veterans.
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backgroundFirearms are involved in more than 70% of U.S. Veteran suicides. Caregivers, defined as family members or concerned significant others, can play an important role in firearm suicide prevention through initiating conversations about secure firearm storage with Veterans. Our objective was to explore caregivers' experiences with lethal means safety (LMS) conversations and identify perceived barriers to caregivers discussing LMS with healthcare providers and with Veterans.
methodsWe conducted focus groups with 32 caregivers with experience caring for a Veteran at risk for suicide. Qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis.
resultsWe identified three primary themes: 1) caregivers recognize and endorse the importance of having conversations about secure firearm storage to prevent suicide, 2) despite this, caregivers described barriers to discussing lethal means safety both with healthcare providers and with Veterans, and 3) caregivers suggested strategies to improve their involvement in LMS planning in clinical settings and to support their ability to initiate LMS discussions with Veterans.
conclusionsProviding 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.
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