@article{ref1,
title="The Youth Firearm Risk and Safety Tool (Youth-FiRST): psychometrics and validation of a gun attitudes and violence exposure assessment tool",
journal="Violence and victims",
year="2020",
author="Beseler, Cheryl and Mitchell, Kimberly J. and Jones, Lisa M. and Turner, Heather A. and Hamby, Sherry L. and Wade, Roy",
volume="35",
number="5",
pages="635-655",
abstract="This study reports on the development of a comprehensive assessment of exposure to guns and gun-related violence for evaluating the risk of gun-related trauma. Gun access, gun attitudes, gun safety education, and exposure to gun violence were measured. Participants were 630 youth, aged 2-17. Youth, ages 10-17, completed a self-report survey and caregivers of young children, ages 2-9, completed the survey as a proxy for that child. The youth were from urban (n = 286) and rural (n = 344) areas. Factor analysis, item response theory, and structural equation modeling were used. Two factors described access to guns, two factors described gun attitudes, and a single construct captured gun safety education. The gun violence exposure factor showed strong associations with trauma symptomatology. The individual constructs showed good psychometric properties and measurement noninvariance by urbanicity.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-6708",
doi="10.1891/VV-D-19-00085",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/VV-D-19-00085"
}