title: Sexual assault history and its association with the use of drinking protective behavioral strategies among college women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The current study examined the relationship between sexual assault history and drinking protective behavioral strategies (PBS). Given the relationship between sexual assault history and alcohol use, we hypothesized that after we controlled for drinking behavior, women with a childhood sexual abuse (CSA) history would use fewer drinking PBS than those without a CSA history. We also hypothesized that a history of adolescent/adult sexual assault (ASA) involving incapacitation and force would be associated with lower use of drinking PBS after controlling for CSA history and drinking behavior.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 800 undergraduate college women completed a survey online.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Regression analyses indicated that the only sexual assault history type that was consistently related to all three types of drinking PBS was ASA involving incapacitation. Women with a history of incapacitated ASA were less likely to use any type of drinking PBS than women without such history. A history of other types of sexual assault (CSA, physically forced ASA, and verbally coerced ASA) was associated only with lower use of serious harm-reduction drinking PBS, such as going home with a friend or knowing the location of your drink.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This was the first study to examine the relationship between different sexual assault histories and drinking PBS, and it furthers our understanding of the relationship between alcohol and sexual assault. Possible reasons for this relationship between ASA and PBS use are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Amanda K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Gilmore
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Cynthia A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Stappenbeck
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Melissa A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Hollie F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Granato
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kaysen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D040261:Harm Reduction; D006801:Humans; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult