LOUISVILLE — Adults hoping to prevent school shootings like the one in 1997 at Heath High School in western Kentucky can improve the odds by connecting with students, paying more attention to their mental health and reducing their access to guns.

        These are key findings from a study released Friday on lethal school violence. The National Research Council examined six school shootings in hopes of finding ways to prevent them.

        The study confirmed what many experts said they already knew — school shootings, because they are often committed by teens with common adolescent concerns, are nearly impossible to prevent by profiling.

        “We need to be more proactive in encouraging kids to come forward and opening lines of communication between students and adults,” said Katherine S. Newman, a Radcliffe social scientist who studied the Heath High shooting.

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