{
  "abstract": "Background A US survey of surgeons found that 32% store firearms unlocked and loaded. This study explored conditions and contexts impacting personal firearm storage methods among surgeons.Methods We conducted semi-structured interviews with English-speaking fellows of the American College of Surgeons who treated patients injured by firearms and who owned or lived in homes with firearms. Participants were recruited through email and subsequent snowball sampling from April 2022 to August 2022. All interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was applied to transcripts to identify codes. A mixed deductive and inductive approach was used for data reduction and sorting.Results A total of 32 surgeons were interviewed; most were male and white. Dominant themes for firearm storage practices were based on (1) attitudes; (2) perceived norms; (3) personal agency; and (4) intention of firearm use. Personal agency often conflicted with attitudes and perceived norms for surgeons owning firearms for self-defence.Conclusions Storage practices in this sample of firearm-owning surgeons were driven by intent for firearm use, coupled with attitudes, perceived norms and personal agency. Personal agency often conflicted with attitudes and perceived norms, especially for surgeons who owned their firearm for self-defence.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Trauma, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois, USA",
        "Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Shelbie D Waddle"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Trauma, American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois, USA",
        "Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Arielle Thomas"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Pediatric Surgery, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Brendan T Campbell"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA",
        "VA Eastern Colorado Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Marian E Betz"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Julie K Johnson"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA",
        "Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Regina Royan"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Alexander Ellyin"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Angie Jang"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Marie L Crandall"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Anne M Stey"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Exploratory qualitative study of firearm storage practices among surgeons in the USA: contexts and motivations",
  "uid": "39472b36-52cc-54df-b7a5-850446514fcb"
}