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- Title
Reducing Heavy Episodic Drinking, Incapacitation, and Alcohol-Induced Blackouts: Secondary Outcomes of a Web-Based Combined Alcohol Use and Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Intervention.
- Authors
Gilmore, Amanda K.; Bountress, Kaitlin E.; Selmanoff, Mollie; George, William H.
- Abstract
Heavy episodic drinking, alcohol-induced blackouts, and incapacitation are associated with sexual assault among college women. Therefore, reducing heavy episodic drinking, alcohol-induced blackouts, and incapacitation among college women may reduce sexual assault victimization risk. The current study examined the indirect effect of a combined alcohol use and sexual assault risk reduction program on sexual assault severity through heavy episodic drinking, alcohol-induced blackouts, and incapacitation (n = 264). An alcohol use reduction program, sexual assault risk reduction program, and combined alcohol use and sexual assault risk reduction program were compared with a control condition. The sexual assault risk reduction content reduced alcohol-induced blackouts and incapacitation, and the combined alcohol use and sexual assault risk reduction program reduced alcohol-induced blackouts. Only incapacitation was associated with reduced sexual assault severity at follow-up. Reducing incapacitation and alcohol-induced blackouts is possible with a brief, web-based intervention, and reducing incapacitation may be one viable strategy within larger sexual assault prevention programming efforts.
- Subjects
REHABILITATION of people with alcoholism; ALCOHOLS (Chemical class); CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; ONLINE information services; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; HUMAN sexuality; SEX crimes; STUDENT assistance programs; SURVEYS; CRIME victims; TREATMENT programs; BINGE drinking; ALCOHOL drinking in college; EVALUATION of human services programs; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2018, Vol 24, Issue 11, p1299
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077801218787934