Respondent Characteristics and Attitudes About Physician Gun Counselling Among the Practices Surveyed
| Practice (sample size) | Age, mean ± SD (n) | Gun Owners, n (%) | ≤High School Education, n (%) | Single-Parent Household, n (%) | n (%) responding yes to: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Should doctors ask about guns in home | Should doctors advise about safe storage | Should doctors advise parents to remove guns | |||||
| 1 (500) | 36 ± 7 (472) | 142 (28) | 72 (15) | 54 (11) | 294 (61) | 312 (65) | 114 (24) |
| 2 (148) | 30 ± 10 (108) | 14 (10) | 57 (58) | 71 (49) | 106 (77) | 120 (90) | 66 (51) |
| 3 (61) | 31 ± 13 (46) | 6 (10) | 32 (71) | 26 (43) | 44 (82) | 46 (87) | 24 (56) |
| 4 (30) | 32 ± 9 (19) | 11 (37) | 4 (22) | 4 (14) | 20 (77) | 20 (80) | 8 (33) |
| 5 (66) | 36 ± 8 (56) | 19 (29) | 17 (34) | 13 (20) | 52 (80) | 56 (86) | 22 (36) |
| 6 (30) | 33 ± 9 (20) | 2 (7) | 5 (33) | 16 (53) | 15 (56) | 23 (85) | 11 (42) |
| 7 (57) | 30 ± 8 (46) | 12 (21) | 25 (57) | 13 (23) | 45 (83) | 49 (91) | 28 (57) |
| 8 (30) | 42 ± 7 (24) | 10 (33) | 6 (25) | 1 (3) | 23 (79) | 23 (79) | 13 (46) |
| 9 (29) | 28 ± 8 (22) | 8 (28) | 7 (32) | 6 (21) | 24 (86) | 27 (96) | 13 (50) |
| P | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
Values for categorical variables are the number and percent of nonmissing responses.