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Prevalence Of Youth Access To Alcohol Or A Gun In The Home, Monica H. Swahn, B J. Hammig, R M. Ikeda
Prevalence Of Youth Access To Alcohol Or A Gun In The Home, Monica H. Swahn, B J. Hammig, R M. Ikeda
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Objectives: To estimate the national prevalence of youth access to alcohol, a gun, or both alcohol and a gun, in their home and to describe the demographic characteristics associated with access to either alcohol or a gun.
Methods: Cross sectional data from the 1995 in-home survey of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which used a nationally representative randomly selected school based sample (n=18 924) of adolescents in grades 7-12, were analyzed. The current analyses were restricted to those adolescents 12-18 years of age (n=18 454). Crude logistic regression analyses was used to determine the demographic characteristics associated with …