Posts to online news message boards and public discourse surrounding DUI enforcement.

Objective: This study analyzes posts to online news message boards covering driving under the influence (DUI) enforcement efforts to determine their usefulness for informing traffic safety program planning and public relations efforts aimed at mainstream drinking drivers.

Methods: A series of Google searches were conducted using keywords designed to capture news stories regarding impaired driving enforcement efforts. For each search, the first 100 Web pages returned were reviewed and articles were included in analysis if they were from an independent news source and contained user comments.

"They're too smart for that": predicting what children would do in the presence of guns.

Objectives: We examined parents' beliefs about how children would react to finding guns, with particular emphasis on how parents reasoned about children's actions.

Methods: Based on a randomized telephone survey of Northeast Ohio residents, we focused on the 317 urban and 311 rural respondents who had children 5 to 15 years old in their homes. Respondents were asked about gun ownership and their expectations of how children would react to finding guns.