Safety Superstars
This diagram detailed participant flow, including 295 screened and 232 randomized individuals.
What is a CONSORT diagram?
Firearm storage practices were reported through participant self-report.
What is response bias?
A mental health framework that was missing from the study.
What is trauma-informed care?
The authors determined they needed their sample size to detect an odds ratio of 2.0-2.5 with 80% power.
What is a power calculation?
This experimental design tested lethal means counseling and cable lock distribution in four groups, allowing for the assessment of individual and combined effects.
What is a 2x2 Factorial Design?
The sample was restricted to members of the Mississippi National Guard.
What is limited generalizability?
There is little information available about the authors.
What is author positionality?
Over 90% of participants were retained across study period.
What is low attrition rate/ high retention rate?
The health and stress counseling controlled for attention effects in the trial’s factorial design.
What is an active control?
The intervention was delivered at one point in time, with no follow-up to sustain the behavior.
What is limited intervention duration?
The sample participants were 87.5% male and 77.2% White.
What is low sample diversity?
Higher gun safe use in one group at the start of the study may have influenced the results.
What is baseline variability?
Clinicians had at least 85% adherence to the intervention protocol after training.
What is high fidelity?
The study did not assess the feasibility of implementing the intervention beyond a controlled setting with clinical psychology doctoral students.
What is scalability?
There was an insufficient equity lens.
What is _______?
The analyses were repeated for participants not using safe storage at baseline to confirm main findings.
What is sensitivity analysis?