Lifetime and Recent Experiences of Violence Among College Women.
Heidi Collins Fantasia, Melissa A Sutherland, M Katherine Hutchinson
PMID 30080710WHAT IT FOUND
52% of college women reported lifetime violence, and 12% reported recent violence or fear.
Alcohol use was associated with recent forced sex and fear. Only 10.2% reported being screened.
Key findings
0152% reported at least one episode of violence in their lifetime, and 21% reported being forced into unwanted sexual activities.
0212% reported recent intimate partner or sexual violence during the previous fall semester, 5.3% reported forced unwanted sexual activities, and 5% reported fear of a current or former partner.
0382% reported drinking alcohol, and recent forced sex was associated with greater weekend drinking, while fear of a partner was associated with weekday drinking.
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What it does not show
The cross-sectional design cannot show whether alcohol use came before or after violence. The study relied on self-report, so recall and social desirability may have affected answers. It was a secondary analysis, so the researchers could only use variables already collected. The sample lacked ethnic and racial diversity and was drawn from five northeastern universities. The perpetrator categories did not capture how women described their relationships. The trend for first-year students did not reach significance.
Declared interests
The authors reported no financial conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that alcohol causes violence. The study is cross-sectional, so it cannot show whether drinking preceded or followed violence.