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Parents’ Expectations of High Schools in Firearm Violence Prevention

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Community Health, May 2017
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Title
Parents’ Expectations of High Schools in Firearm Violence Prevention
Published in
Journal of Community Health, May 2017
DOI 10.1007/s10900-017-0360-5
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Erica Payton, Jagdish Khubchandani, Amy Thompson, James H. Price

Abstract

Firearm violence remains a significant problem in the US (with 2787 adolescents killed in 2015). However, the research on school firearm violence prevention practices and policies is scant. Parents are major stakeholders in relation to firearm violence by youths and school safety in general. The purpose of this study was to examine what parents thought schools should be doing to reduce the risk of firearm violence in schools. A valid and reliable questionnaire was mailed to a national random sample of 600 parents who had at least one child enrolled in a public secondary school (response rate = 47%). Parents perceived inadequate parental monitoring/rearing practices (73%), peer harassment and/or bullying (58%), inadequate mental health care services for youth (54%), and easy access to guns (51%) as major causes of firearm violence in schools. The school policies perceived to be most effective in reducing firearm violence were installing an alert system in schools (70%), working with law enforcement to design an emergency response plan (70%), creating a comprehensive security plan (68%), requiring criminal background checks for all school personnel prior to hiring (67%), and implementing an anonymous system for students to report peer concerns regarding potential violence (67%). Parents seem to have a limited grasp of potentially effective interventions to reduce firearm violence.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 141 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 13%
Student > Master 18 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Researcher 9 6%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 65 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 21 15%
Psychology 13 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 3%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 66 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 70. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 June 2022.
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#564,251
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Community Health
#3
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