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Table 3 Registered Nurse Ease of Practice and Suicide/Homicide

From: The relationship of nursing practice laws to suicide and homicide rates: a longitudinal analysis of US states from 2012 to 2016

 

Suicide (R2 = 0.81)

Homicide (R2 = 0.58)

β (SE)

β (SE)

Urbanity/Rurality (reference: rural)

 Suburban

−0.21(0.59)

−1.16(0.53)a

 Urban

−1.60(0.77)a

−1.05(0.67)

Poverty rate

0.05(0.04)

0.20(0.03)b

Hunting license rate

< 0.01(< 0.01)b

- < 0.01(<.01)a

Density

- < 0.01(<.01)b

- < 0.01(<.01)

Worker index

−0.24(0.22)

0.40(0.18)a

Primary care physician rate

3.60(0.78)b

1.58(0.67)a

Psychiatrist rate

−5.55(3.82)

−7.25(3.48)a

RN rate

0.06(0.15)

−0.19(0.13)

Medicaid generosity

0.08(0.35)

−0.16(0.30)

Distance to trauma center

0.04(0.18)

< 0.01(0.16)

RN ease of practice

−0.60(0.30)a

−0.67(0.27)a

Firearm prohibition laws

−0.15(0.13)

−0.27(0.14)

  1. Authors’ analysis of data from the US Census Bureau, Kaiser Family Foundation, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cato Institute Freedom in the 50 States Project, and State Firearm Laws Database. SE standard error, RN registered nurse; aValue is significant at the 0.05 level; bValue is significant at the 0.01 level. This table displays state-level fixed effects linear regression models of RN ease of practice laws, sociodemographic and healthcare system factors, firearm policy, and their relationship to suicide and homicide rates for all 50 states, excluding the District of Columbia and US territories. Estimates are adjusted for year and census division. The firearm prohibition laws differ by outcome; for the suicide model, the firearm prohibition laws variable is a count of laws prohibiting firearm possession for those with certain types of mental illness. For the homicide model, the variable is a count of laws prohibiting firearm possession for those with a history of certain types of violent crime