title: EXPERIENCE OF FORCED SEX AND SUBSEQUENT SEXUAL, DRUG, AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES: AFRICAN AMERICAN AND HISPANIC WOMEN IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This cross-sectional study examined African American and Hispanic women's (N= 1,509) self-reports of unwanted forced sex and its association with behavioral and mental health outcomes after the event.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty percent of the women had experienced forced sex (1st occurrence at age 15 years or younger for 10%, 1st occurrence at older than 15 years of age for 10%).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Regardless of when forced sex 1st occurred, women were more likely to have engaged in unprotected vaginal and anal sex, to have had multiple unprotected sex partners, to have sexually transmitted infections, to have reported binge drinking and illicit drug use, and to exhibit distress and have received mental health counseling.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Forced sex may have wide-ranging behavioral and mental health consequences years later.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Villar-Loubet
authors.affiliation: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.affiliation: Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ; Carter Consulting Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: O'Daniels
authors.affiliation: Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: Craig B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Borkowf
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
authors.forename: Cathy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Ada A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Adimora
authors.affiliation: Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: Eleanor
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: McLellan-Lemal
keywords: HIV prevention; Sexual violence; cross-cultural studies; quantitative studies; women