Evaluation of the “Respect Not Risk” Firearm Safety Lesson for 3rd-Graders

School-Based and Community-Based Gun Safety Educational Strategies for Injury Prevention

“…However, an increase in knowledge provides no certainty that children will translate this knowledge to a real-life situation. Using knowledge as the outcome variable, therefore, is insufficient for teaching gun safety skills to children, although some studies in this review reported short-term knowledge gain (Hanratty et al, 2016; Kelso et al, 2007; Liller et al, 2003).…”

“…Of the included studies, one was a randomized controlled trial (Hardy, 2003), and one was a quasi-experimental study (Howard, 2005). The other eight were pretest/posttest studies (Gross, Miltenberger, Knudson, Bosch, & Breitwieser, 2007; Hanratty, Miltengerger, & Florentino, 2016; Liller et al, 2003), posttest only with a control group (Gatheridge et al, 2004; Himle et al, 2004; Kelso, Miltenberger, Waters, Egemo-Helm, & Bagne, 2007; Miltenberger et al, 2009), or posttest only with no control (Jostad, Miltenberger, Kelso, & Knudson, 2008).…”

“…Three major approaches are used: “just say no” approaches, in which authority figures provide information passively and tell children to stay away from guns (National Rifle Association for Legislative Action, 2001); skills-building or active approaches (Miltenberger et al, 2009), which attempt to teach children skills they can use to resist playing with or touching guns; and knowledge-based approaches (Liller et al, 2003), in which children are passively provided information and printed material about gun safety. These gun safety training programs seek to instill appropriate responses by following specific rules.…”

Understanding Qualitative Research: A School Nurse Perspective

“…A study by Liller and colleagues (2003) provided an example of triangulation in school nursing research. The purpose of the study was to evaluate a firearm safety lesson, with the method consisting of administration of a pretest and a posttest, which each included 10 multiple-choice questions.…”