TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - The Youth Firearm Risk and Safety Tool (Youth-FiRST): psychometrics and validation of a gun attitudes and violence exposure assessment tool
JO  - Violence and victims
A1  - Beseler, Cheryl
A1  - Mitchell, Kimberly J.
A1  - Jones, Lisa M.
A1  - Turner, Heather A.
A1  - Hamby, Sherry L.
A1  - Wade, Roy
SP  - 635
EP  - 655
VL  - 35
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-6708
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/VV-D-19-00085
ID  - ref1
ER  -