College Women: The Alcohol and Victimization Link

描述（由申请人提供）：年轻的大学女性受害是一个具有潜在破坏性后果的问题。 每年大约有200万女性是新生（美国教育部）。的ED，2001年）。在最近的一份报告中，Hingson等人（2002年）估计，60万（13.3%）大学生在一年内因其他学生饮酒而受到攻击。Humphrey和白色（2000年）发现，6.4%的妇女报告说，在她们上学的第一年被强奸。研究结果表明，大学里50%的性侵犯涉及酒精（修道院，2002年）。根据这些数字，每年有3.2%或64，000名大一女生经历过与酒精有关的强奸。显然，受害（非性和性）是大学校园中一个重要的酒精相关问题。在R01申请中提出的研究重点是大学女生饮酒和受害之间的纵向关系。 拟议调查的主要目的是：1）描述四年大学期间的饮酒率和与酒精相关的受害率，2）评估饮酒与与酒精相关的受害（性和非性，言语和身体）之间的时间关系，3）评估大学期间经历受害的风险因素，4）评估主要（例如，伤害，心理创伤）和继发性（例如，学术，心理）的后果与酒精有关的受害。两个纵向研究部分将用于实现这些研究目标。第一部分是每年秋季学期进行一次简短的电话调查，调查2004年秋季学期第一次进入大学的一批妇女的饮酒模式、受害情况和其他与酒精有关的问题。研究的第2部分涉及为期8周的饮酒模式和受害经历的前瞻性评估，每年在春季学期期间，对第一年从第1部分参与者中随机选择的妇女进行一次抽样。构成部分2将使用最先进的技术（交互式语音应答）收集关于饮酒和发生的任何受害情况的每日数据。将使用基于事件的措施来提供关于受害经历的详细数据。这项研究是创新的长期和短期的措施，在纵向设计，以评估与酒精有关的受害大学女生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Victimization of young, college women is a problem with potentially devastating consequences. Approximately 2 million women are new freshmen each year (US Dept. of Ed., 2001). In a recent report, Hingson et al. (2002) estimate that 600,000 (13.3%) college students were assaulted because of drinking by other students over a 1-year period. Humphrey and White (2000) found that 6.4% of women reported being raped during their first year in school. Research findings indicate that 50% of sexual assaults in college involve alcohol (Abbey, 2002). Based on these figures, 3.2% or 64,000 freshmen women experience an alcohol-related rape annually. Clearly, victimization (nonsexual and sexual) is a significant alcohol-related problem on college campuses. The research proposed in this R01 application focuses on the longitudinal relationship between alcohol consumption and victimization among college women. The PRIMARY OBJECTIVES of the proposed investigation are to 1) describe the rates of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related victimization, across four years of college attendance, 2) assess the temporal relationship between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related victimization (sexual and nonsexual,verbal and physical), 3) assess risk factors for experiencing victimization during college, and 4) assess primary (e.g., injury, psychological trauma) and secondary (e.g., academic, psychological) consequences of alcohol-related victimization. Two longitudinal research components will be used to achieve these research objectives. Component 1 involves a brief telephone survey, administered annually during the Fall semester, of the drinking patterns, victimization and other alcohol-related problems that occur in a cohort of women entering college for the first time during the Fall semester of 2004. Component 2 of the research involves an 8-week prospective assessment of drinking patterns and victimization experiences administered annually during the Spring semester, to a sub-sample of women randomly selected during Year I from Component 1 participants. Component 2 will use state-of-the-art technology (Interactive Voice Response) to collect daily data on alcohol consumption and any victimization that occurs. Event-based measures will be used to Provide detailed data on victimization experiences. This research is innovative in the use of long- and short-term measures, within a longitudinal design, to assess alcohol-related victimization of college women.