NCT06123611

Pediatric Trauma Centers RE-AIM at Gun Safety

Pediatric Trauma Centers RE-AIM at Gun Safety - Adopting Comprehensive Training for FireArm Safety in Trauma Centers

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 11 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Universal firearm injury and violence prevention counseling of parents and patients has been recommended by multiple national organizations for over a decade, yet clinicians rarely deliver this counseling. Barriers to its implementation must be addressed in order to effectively deliver firearm related injury prevention efforts. This study will implement a universal firearm injury prevention initiative within a national cohort of three pediatric trauma centers. The investigator's long-term goal is to demonstrate best practices for pediatric trauma center-based firearm injury prevention strategies that promote safe storage practices and reduce firearm related injury and death. This research will test the effectiveness of a comprehensive training strategy for improving the implementation of a universal firearm injury prevention effort, ACTFAST (Adopting Comprehensive Training for FireArm Safety in Trauma centers), to 1) increase the adoption, implementation and sustainability of a universal firearm injury prevention initiative within participating pediatric level 1 trauma centers; 2) increase firearm safety knowledge, attitudes and safe firearm storage practices among parents of pediatric trauma patients and youth patients treated within participating pediatric level 1 trauma centers, and 3) increase trauma center clinicians' firearm safety knowledge and confidence in delivering a firearm safety intervention.

Conditions

• Firearm Injury
• Safety Issues

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Adopting Comprehensive Training for FireArm Safety in Trauma centers	Firearm access screening, brief firearm safe storage intervention, and referral to community and preventive health resources

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-25
• Primary completion: 2026-09-30
• Completion: 2027-09-30
• First posted: 2023-11-09
• Last updated: 2026-03-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States