Lifetime and Past-Year Defensive Gun Use
Objective: To examine the frequency of DGU relative to gun violence exposure (GVE) in a sample of firearm owners drawn from a nationally representative sample of US adults.
Method: This survey study was approved by the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences institutional review board and all participants provided informed consent. We followed the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) reporting guideline in the design of our sample and survey instrument and for analysis and reporting of results.
Project Status:
Completed
Principal Investigators:
Michael D. Anestis, Kimberly Burke, and Sultan Altikriti