Minneapolis St. Paul Mental Health Blog

Mental Health and guns questionnaire / study | As part of an effort to examine the consequences of COVID-19, the authors used the 9-Item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) depression screening scale as well as a dichotomous yes or no question regarding gun ownership. Additionally, they inquired about recency of purchase, future plans for acquiring guns, and reasons for obtaining them.

Mental Health note | A new analysis of firearm deaths from 1999-2017 examines changes in each state within age, gender and racial/ethnic groups.

This article is about safety. It is not our position to argue gun control, the issue of safety starts in the home.

American children died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds at a sharply higher rate in 2014 than seven years earlier, according to a recent study, which said that the safe storage of firearms could make a big difference in preventing youth suicides.